From: Andrew L. <an...@me...> - 2003-02-19 13:33:55
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Stelian Pop said: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:38:15PM -0500, Andrew Liebeskind wrote: > >> My experience with EVMS has been very good thus far, so I do recommend >> it as a general-purpose storage management solution for Linux, and >> particularly for the problem of snapshot backups you're dealing with >> here. > > I agree. I should also add that EVMS is comercially backuped by IBM, is > an old and proved technology (EVMS was ported from AIX). > > There is however a slight question mark concerning the future of > LVM/EVMS in the 2.5/2.6 kernel (none of two was accepted for > inclusion, but a third, more generic solution, called 'Device Mapper' > was choosed, and LVM/EVMS should be poretd to work upon the DM layer). > However, I do believe that when the 2.6 kernel will be out (and > stable for general use), the situation will be solved. My understanding of the situation with EVMS 2.0 development (for the future 2.6 kernel) is that they're dumping their existing kernel driver in order to use Device Mapper instead, but all the userspace components of EVMS will present the same functionality to the user. I believe there are some issues under the new scheme with having the root filesystem on an EVMS volume, but that's being sorted out and should be working fine when EVMS 2.0 is released. Cheers, all! -- ### Andrew Liebeskind ###### That's logic, as I know and use it. ### # "I am the Golux", said the Golux, proudly, "the only Golux # # in the world, and not a mere Device." # # --_The Thirteen Clocks_, James Thurber # ### an...@me... ########### http://www.meredevice.com/ ### |