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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2006-02-26 16:01:52
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.5 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the fifth maintenance release in the EVMS 2.5.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. In addition, three new plugins have been added in this release. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.5.5 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.5.5 is supported on recent 2.6 and 2.4.22 through 2.4.32 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.5 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new changes that you need to read if you're going to use them. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://www.ibm.com/linux/ http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.5.5 (2/24/2006) - New plugins - OCFS2 FSIM, contributed by Robert Whitehead from Novell. - FAT FSIM, contribued by Anton D. Kachalov from ALT Linux Ltd. - Heartbeat2 Cluster Manager, contributed by Changju Gao from Novell. - Bug fixes - Clean up compile warnings from gcc4. - Engine - Perform remote rediscovery after filesystem changes have been made so other cluster nodes will pick up the volume changes. - Disk Plugin - Try to get disk geometry from the DOS MBR before asking the kernel. - MD Plugin - Allow creating degraded RAID-1 and RAID-5 regions. - Correct size checks when assembling list of available objects to add to an existing raid1 using the version-1 superblock. - Provide an option for creating a version-1 superblock even if the running kernel does not support them. - evms_mpathd - When sending test-I/Os to a failed path, use the device's hard-sector-size instead of assuming 512 bytes for the request size. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2005-12-08 04:58:29
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On Wed December 7 2005 9:32 pm, Kevin Corry wrote: > The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.4 release of the Enterprise Volume > Management System. In addition to the 2.5.4 release, there is an extra patch available to enable creating degraded RAID-1 and RAID-5 regions. This new code wasn't finished in time to make the build for evms-2.5.4, but I've made the patch available in the "extra patches" section on the EVMS website for anyone who would like to test. http://evms.sourceforge.net/patches/2.5.4/engine/degraded_raid.patch -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://www.ibm.com/linux/ http://evms.sourceforge.net/ |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2005-12-08 03:33:06
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.4 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the fourth maintenance release in the EVMS 2.5.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.5.4 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.5.4 is supported on recent 2.6 and 2.4.22 through 2.4.31 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.4 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new changes that you need to read if you're going to use them. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://www.ibm.com/linux/ http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.5.4 (12/7/2005) - Clustering - Update EVMS to be compatible with Linux-HA version 1 or 2. See README for more details. - Bug fixes - Engine - Don't display the "unmount" command when selecting a swap volume, since unmount doesn't work for swap volumes. - Fix segfault when passing a NULL "parms" argument to is_object_change_pending(). - Cancel the shutdown thread when the engine is closed to prevent extra threads from lying around when using the CLI's "probe" command. - Fix for the "new" dm-multipath table format when using dm-multipath devices with a hardware-specific handler. - DOS Plugin - Fix typo in compaq segment naming. - GUI - Fix segfault when trying to select an unselectable plugin task. - CLI - Fixes to auto-screen-width output code. - evms_query - Fix infinite-loop when specifying a numerical debug-level on the command-line. - Minor improvements - Engine - Merge overlapping kill-sector requests. - Move plugin names and IDs to a common header file. - Display a warning message if we discover an in-progress replace operation. - Disk Plugin - Add an "ignore_sysfs" configuration option to force the plugin to ignore the devices in sysfs and fall-back to the "legacy" devices. - Try HDIO_GETGEO ioctl before HDIO_GETGEO_BIG ioctl, since the _BIG version is now deprecated. - Improved geometry calculations based on code from fdisk. - Initrd - Add support for doing Software-Suspend-2 with swap on an EVMS volume. - Add kernel command-line options for forcing the linuxrc script to drop to a shell before and/or after running evms_activate. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2005-06-10 21:51:01
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.3 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the third maintenance release in the EVMS 2.5.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.5.3 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.5.3 is supported on recent 2.6 and 2.4.22 through 2.4.31 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.3 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new features that you need to read if you're going to use them. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://www.ibm.com/linux/ http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.5.3 (6/10/2005) - Bug fixes - Engine - Marked all deleted volumes as needing deactivation. - Use LIST_FOR_EACH_SAFE when walking object lists during commit. - Fix a small memory leak when allocating multipath target structures. - Replace Plugin - Corrected checks during discovery for replace objects. - MD Plugin - Fix stack corruption bug in MD plugin. [Marcus Meissner] - Fix memory corruption bug for RAID-5 regions running in degraded mode. [Gleb Stiblo] - Remove left over check when comparing DM tables for multipath objects that was causing the comparisons to always fail. - LVM2 Plugin - Fix stack corruption bug in LVM2 plugin. [Thomas Fehr] - Fix "packed" structure definition in LVM2 plugin. [sannes] - Round up instead of down to nearest PE-size when creating an LVM2 region. - Disk and DOS Plugins - Correctly handle HP/Compaq disk array names. These disks usually have names like "cciss/c0d0" or "ida/c0d0". Their segments will contain a "p" before the segment number, to correspond with the commonly-used names. - Command-Line UI - Improved display formatting for the CLI. - Minor improvements. - When mounting a volume in the GUI or Ncurses, check /etc/fstab for the initial suggested mountpoint. - Limit the number of open file-descriptors in the disk plugin. This also adds a new "max_open_disks" option in the config file. - Updates to documentation, including updates to the CLI man page and help text. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2005-02-28 17:01:28
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.2 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the second maintenance release in the EVMS 2.5.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.5.2 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.5.2 is supported on 2.6.11-rc5 and 2.4.21 through 2.4.29 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.2 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new features that you need to read if you're going to use them. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/ http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.5.2 (2/28/2004) - Bug fixes - Engine - Properly clean up empty directories in the /dev/evms/ tree. - MD Plugin - When removing a failed disk, need to ioctl to the MD driver to make sure it drops its reference to the disk. - When a disk is marked faulty and a spare is automatically activated, the faulty disk's number needs to be updated to match the kernel's view. - Check for array syncing status when getting region info. - Compensate for differences in GET_DISK_INFO ioctl between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. - Fix number of entries in MD superblock. - Use ffs instead of ffz. (Stefan Bader) - Fix compile errors with older gcc's. - Snapshots - Fix a segfault that could occur when rolling-back a snapshot that isn't made into an EVMS volume. - evms_metadata_restore - Fix some macro definitions. - Init-Ramdisk - Changes to linuxrc to be more backwards-compatible with older EVMS initrd images. - Updates to INSTALL guide. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2005-01-30 21:49:22
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Greetings, EVMS is releasing a new sample init-ramdisk image for the 2.5.1 release. The init-ramdisk that was part of the 2.5.1 release forced some changes to the kernel command-line parameters for specifying the root volume. After some discussion on evms-devel this week, some changes were made that allows the kernel command-line parameters to remain the same as in all previous versions of the EVMS init-ramdisk. The only change necessary now for upgrading from a 2.4.1 or earlier version to this new version is to insure that your root filesystem has an /initrd directory. Thanks to Michel Bouissou and Syrius for helping refine the init-ramdisk's linuxrc script. This new init-ramdisk image is called evms-2.5.1.1-initrd-new.gz and is available for download from the EVMS website at http://evms.sourceforge.net. New md5 checksums are also available. The "old" init-ramdisk image is still available for the 2.5.1 release. However, since the "new" init-ramdisk can now use the same kernel parameters, only one init-ramdisk will be provided with future EVMS releases. No changes have been made to the 2.5.1 source package. If you have any questions or find any bugs with this new init-ramdisk image, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2005-01-21 18:05:15
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.1 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the first maintenance release in the EVMS 2.5.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.5.1 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.5.1 is supported on 2.6.10 and 2.4.21 through 2.4.29 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.1 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new features that you need to read if you're going to use them. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.5.1 (1/21/2004) - New features - New MD superblock support (>=2.6.10 kernels only). - Bug fixes - Segfault when backing up metadata for a snapshotted volume. - Device-Mapper version mismatch with older kernels. - Correct "is-mounted" in the case when a volume has been renamed. - Infinite loop during discovery when a RAID-1 or RAID-5 is syncing. - Relax the PV size-check restrictions for LVM1 containers. - Try manually loading a DM target kernel module if it's not found when checking for target versions. - Update evms_mpathd to work with the new dm-multipath table format. - Init-Ramdisk - Change linuxrc to use the pivot-root method for mounting the root-fs. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-12-21 17:57:42
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.0 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This release includes new features and enhancements to the 2.x series. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.5.0 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.5.0 is supported on 2.6.9 and 2.4.21 through 2.4.28 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.0 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new features that you need to read if you're going to use them. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS ChangeLog ============== 2.5.0 (12/21/2004) - New features - Metadata backup and restore. - LVM2 move-mappings. - Minor updates and bug fixes - Proper progress-indicator initialization in several plugins. - Engine - Simplify several informational data structures. - Reduce severity of some log messages to make them less misleading. - Minor reordering of commit sequence to prevent segfaults in the snapshot plugin's delete and deactivation code. - Fix to the volume size calculation code. - Clustering - Overhaul of remoting code to get rid of several memory leaks. - LVM2 - Fix problem with converting some systems from LVM2 to EVMS. - Don't allow spaces in container and region names. - Snapshot - Add a routine for the discard API. - S/390 Segment Manager - Fix bug with deleting multiple segments. - Fix "format" plugin-function. - BBR Segment Manager - Fix potential seg-fault in deactivation routine. - Fix forwarding of kill-sector requests during delete. - Disk Plugin - More detailed information for IDE disks. - Multipath - Support the new table string format for the latest dm-multipath kernel module, along with the previous format. - Updated documentation and kernel patches. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-10-28 17:32:31
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.4.1 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the first maintenance release in the EVMS 2.4.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.4.1 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.4.1 is supported on 2.6.9 and 2.4.21 through 2.4.27 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.4.1 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new features that you need to read if you're going to use them. Users with BBR segments: Please see the README file for information about an update to the BBR metadata. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.4.1 (10/28/2004) - Bug fixes for the 2.4.0 release. - Engine - Fixed a potential volume activation problem. - Improved debugging log messages. - BBR Segment Manager - Important metadata update. See README file for details! - Fix segfault when creating new BBR segments. - Software-RAID - Fixes to recovery after a failed RAID-0 or RAID-5 expand. - Do proper filtering of spare disks based on cluster-disk-group. - LVM2 - 64-bit-support cleanup - Fix a compile error. - FSIMs - Fix bugs in checking allowed size for shrinking. - Fix status checks after a fork/execvp. - Clustering Support - Make the membership timeout configurable in evms.conf. - Disk Manager - Fix private-data allocation bug. - Object-Replace - Fix bug with replacing one full disk with another full disk. - Build process - Improved version checking when searching for Linux-HA. - Updated documentation and kernel patches. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-09-17 18:08:41
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.4.0 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This release includes several new features and enhancements to the 2.x series. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.4.0 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.4.0 is supported on 2.6.8.1 and 2.4.21 through 2.4.27 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.4.0 package for installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are important notes about the new features that you need to read if you're going to use them. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.4.0 (9/17/2004) - New features - Selective activation. - RAID-0 and RAID-5 resize. - New LVM2 plugin. - New NTFS fsim. - NLS support. - Container PV expand and shrink. - Updates and bug-fixes - Disk manager - Recognize multipath-tools devices as disks. - Online replace - Recover and complete replace operations following an engine or system crash during an online replace. - LVM1 plugin. - Add rename for regions and containers. - Swap FSIM - Add swapon and swapoff functions. - Command Line UI - Add mount and unmount commands. - Updates for 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 kernels. - Updated documentation. |
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From: Steve D. <st...@us...> - 2004-06-03 18:29:37
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(reposting with correct subject) The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.4 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the fourth maintenance release in the EVMS 2.3.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.4 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.3.4 is supported on 2.6.6 and 2.4.20 through 2.4.26 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.4 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Steve Dobbelstein st...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS ChangeLog ============== 2.3.4 (6/3/20004) - Bug-fixes for the 2.3.3 release. - Engine - Add ability to expand a volume/filesystem in the event a volume's object is replaced by a larger object. - Don't allow operations on compatibility volumes that have their corresponding kernel volume mounted. - Use pthread IDs instead of PIDs in the log timestamps. - Fix memory-deallocate bug in object-replace. - Various clustering bug-fixes. - DOS - Fix segment naming inconsistency during comparison with kernel mappings. - CSM - Allow expanding and shrinking CSM containers. - Fix seg-fault caused by improperly initialized option-descriptor. - Local Disk Manager - Minor code restructuring. - MD - Properly handle arrays that were purposely created with missing disks. - Improved log and user messages. - GUI - Add a workaround for a GTK timer bug. - Installation - Check for either /etc/ha.d or /etc/heartbeat when checking for Linux-HA. [Matt Zimmerman] - New evms_query tool. - Updated documentation. |
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From: Steve D. <st...@us...> - 2004-06-03 18:20:22
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.4 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the fourth maintenance release in the EVMS 2.3.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.4 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.3.4 is supported on 2.6.6 and 2.4.20 through 2.4.26 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.4 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Steve Dobbelstein st...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS ChangeLog ============== 2.3.4 (6/3/20004) - Bug-fixes for the 2.3.3 release. - Engine - Add ability to expand a volume/filesystem in the event a volume's object is replaced by a larger object. - Don't allow operations on compatibility volumes that have their corresponding kernel volume mounted. - Use pthread IDs instead of PIDs in the log timestamps. - Fix memory-deallocate bug in object-replace. - Various clustering bug-fixes. - DOS - Fix segment naming inconsistency during comparison with kernel mappings. - CSM - Allow expanding and shrinking CSM containers. - Fix seg-fault caused by improperly initialized option-descriptor. - Local Disk Manager - Minor code restructuring. - MD - Properly handle arrays that were purposely created with missing disks. - Improved log and user messages. - GUI - Add a workaround for a GTK timer bug. - Installation - Check for either /etc/ha.d or /etc/heartbeat when checking for Linux-HA. [Matt Zimmerman] - New evms_query tool. - Updated documentation. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-05-12 18:30:40
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.3 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the third maintenance release in the EVMS 2.3.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.3 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.3.3 is supported on 2.6.6 and 2.4.20 through 2.4.26 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.3 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS ChangeLog ============== 2.3.3 (5/12/2004) - Bug-fixes for the 2.3.2 release. - Engine - Fix for online-replace. When replacing an object directly under an EVMS volume, the volume needs to be reactivated so it maps to the copy object. - Fix problem with sem_wait() returning due to a SIGCONT signal. - S390 segment manager - Remove out-of-date multipath detection code. - XFS FSIM - Add a "force" option for mkfs. - Display the error output if mkfs fails. - Correctly get "extra" extended information. - LVM - Fix incorrect return code when expanding a striped region. - Snapshot - Fix endian conversions during snapshot rollback. - GUI - Replace some help menu items with a new panel containing links to documentation on the EVMS web site. - CSM - Fix a bug with creating a CSM container with multiple disks. - Linux-HA - evms_failover script - Fix using old option name for setting the node for a private container. - Remove redundant calls to commit changes. - Improvements to the evms_gather_info script. - Additional test-suite test-cases. - Updated documentation. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-04-26 17:58:07
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.2 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the second maintenance release in the EVMS 2.3.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.2 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.3.2 is supported on 2.6.5 and 2.4.20 through 2.4.26 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.2 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net EVMS Changelog ============== 2.3.2 (4/26/2004) - Bug-fixes for the 2.3.1 release. - Engine - Fix minor deactivation bug. Engine was trying to deactivate volumes that didn't have their own DM device, causing spurious kernel error messages. - GUI - Fix seg-fault caused by a potentially uninitialized mutex. - HA Cluster Manager - Allow EVMS to use HA 1.0 or 1.2. - Fix some memory allocation/deallocation problems. - Snapshotting - Fix activation problem caused by the kernel module not getting loaded. - Snapshot-rollback bug-fix. - Command-Line UI - Improved method for displaying the CLI output, based on the width of the terminal session. - Add "replace" command. - General cleanup. - New test suite. See tests/suite/README for more details. - Install plugins in /lib/evms/x.y.z/ instead of just /lib/evms/. - Updated kernel patches and documentation. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-03-31 15:09:02
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.1 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the first maintenance release in the EVMS 2.3.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.1 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.3.1 is supported on 2.6.5-rc3 and 2.4.20 through 2.4.25 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.1 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS ChangeLog ============== 2.3.1 (3/31/2004) - Bug-fixes for the 2.3.0 release. - Engine - Fixes in API-remoting code. - Fix in make_directory for top-level directories. - Start pthreads detached. [Steve Landherr] - Use waitpid to terminate the daemon worker process. [Steve Landherr] - Use usleep instead of sleep to avoid being woken up by a signal. - Improved error checking when activating objects. - Cluster Segment Manager - Improved options for creation and reassignment. - Add rename capability. - Fixes in segment-discard. - HA Cluster Manager - Improved handling of membership events. - Improved method for launching the failover script. - Fix seg-fault in processing list of threads waiting for responses. - Better error logging. - Always install evms_failover. [Matt Zimmerman] - Software-RAID - Fix in removing stale disks. - Wait for recovery process to begin before rediscovery. - Fix segfault when discovering RAID-linear and RAID-0 regions with missing children. - Multipath - Improved path recovery detection. - Fixes and improvements in delete and discard. - LVM - Fix seg-fault while expanding striped regions. [Steve Landherr] - S/390 Segment Manager - Build fix [Bastian Blank, Matt Zimmerman] - Disk - Improved search for sysfs. - Snapshot - Disallow creation of snapshots of cluster-shared volumes. - Minor changes to engine logging. - Move ENTRY_EXIT before DEBUG - Print log level as part of message timestamp. - Note: Run the EVMS UIs with "-d debug" instead of "-d everything" now to generate a detailed trace log. - Remove get_dev_num utility. - Updated kernel patches and documentation. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-03-03 15:55:50
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.0 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This release includes several new features and enhancements to the 2.x series. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.0 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.3.0 is supported on 2.6.3 and 2.4.19 through 2.4.25 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.0 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.3.0 (3/3/2004) - Clustering enhancements - Remote APIs - Object discard - Internal rediscover - Multipath - Convert MD-multipath to use the new Device-Mapper multipath module. - Add a new plugin for detecting multipath LVM PVs. - Software-RAID - Convert RAID-linear and RAID-0 to use Device-Mapper instead of MD. - OpenGFS FSIM - Enable online move for the LVM plugin. - Replace dlist with new engine services. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2004-01-19 17:27:13
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.2.2 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the second maintenance release in the EVMS 2.2.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.2.2 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.2.2 is supported on 2.6.1 and 2.4.19 through 2.4.24 kernels. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.2.2 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============== 2.2.2 (1/19/2004) - Bug fixes for the 2.2.1 release. - Command Line UI - When querying for the parent of an object, display the volume info if the object has a volume but no parent objects. - Make the CLI output unbuffered, so it works properly over sockets [Mike Snitzer] - MD Plugin - Add the ability to forceably reconstruct a corrupt RAID-5 array. - Fix the "No Device" error when trying to add a spare to an MD region. - Fix some macro definitions. - 390 Segment Manager - Fixes to allow plugin to build properly with 2.6 kernel headers. - Kernel updates - Update to the 2.4.24 and 2.6.1 kernels. - Init-ramdisk updates - Updated busybox to version 1.00-pre5. - Reduced size of initrd by half. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-12-11 16:22:25
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.2.1 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the first maintenance release in the EVMS 2.2.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.2.1 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.2.1 is supported on 2.4.19 through 2.4.23 kernels, as well as 2.6.0-test10 and -test11. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.2.1 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============= 2.2.1 (12/11/2003) - Bug fixes for the 2.2.0 release. - Engine: Fix compile bug when building on systems with NPTL. - GUI: Fix a hang in the option window display. - BBR plug-in: Use the Engine's read_object and write_object services. - Disk and MD plug-ins: Fix definitions of BLKGETSIZE64, BLKBSZGET and BLKBSZSET. - Filesystem plug-ins: Fix memory leaks. - Drivelink plug-in: Fix discovery ordering issue. - Snapshot plug-in: Change naming scheme for snapshot sibling object. - Kernel updates. - Update to device-mapper-1.00.07. - Update to 2.4.23 kernel. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-12-02 15:18:43
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Greetings, With the release of the 2.4.23 kernel and the device-mapper 1.00.07 package, some updates have been made to the EVMS installation instructions and kernel patches. Please see http://evms.sf.net/install/ for the most recent installation guide. Also, please see http://evms.sf.net/patches/2.2.0/kernel/ for updated kernel patches. These patches override the ones that come with the EVMS 2.2.0 package. A new EVMS package (2.2.1) will be released in the next week or two containing these installation and kernel updates, along with some user-space bug-fixes. -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-11-12 18:42:54
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The EVMS team is announcing the 2.2.0 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This release includes several new features, plugins, and enhancements to the 2.0 series. The source code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.2.0 are now available for download at the project web site: http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS 2.2.0 is supported on 2.4.19 through 2.4.22 kernels, as well as 2.6.0-test9. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.2.0 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog ============= 2.2.0 (11/12/2003): - Snapshot Expand - Increase available storage space for a snapshot on the fly. - New DriveLink plugin (same metadata format) - Clustering Enhancements - CSM disk-group name-spaces. - Don't allow new objects or containers to span CSM disk-groups. - Online Move - Certain move operations can now be done with the volume mounted. - Object replace - Segment-manager moves (DOS, GPT, S390) - LVM regions must still be moved offline. - Add --devnum option to evms_activate to print the device-number of a specified volume. - Check for /proc and /sys at engine-open. - Mount if they aren't already mounted (and unmount at engine-close). - New installation instructions. - Bug-Fixes - Rewrite RAID-1 and RAID-5 failure handling. - Correctly link with dlist during build process. - Command-Line UI output formatting fixes. - Check device-number as well as name when checking if a volume is mounted. - Fix segfaults in MD plugin when checking for plugin-functions. - Cleanups - Consolidated several common plugin macros into one place. - Only export the plugin-record symbol from the plugin shared-objects. - Fix -q option for evms_activate. Changes since -pre7 =================== - Bug fix for *offline* move in segment manager plugins. - Improved "time-remaining" estimates for online move and replace. - Code cleanups - Documentation updates Changes since -pre6 =================== - Bug fixes - Online move and object replace - Avoid a deadlock when starting certain online copy operations. - Better "time-remaining" estimates. - MD - Look in /proc/mdstat to see if RAID arrays are syncing. - Prompt the user to remove a disk that has just been marked faulty. - Drivelinking - When a child-object seems to be missing, allow the user to specify which object should be added. - Code cleanups Changes since -pre5 =================== - Bug fixes - "Mark faulty" for RAID-1 objects - Online object replace - Improved support for nbd and drbd devices - BBR segment activation - RAID + LVM discovery ordering - Other MD/RAID fixes and cleanups - Updated kernel patches - Code cleanups - Documentation updates Changes since -pre4 =================== - Bug fixes: - Activation sequence for snapshots on 2.6 kernels. - Setup for online copies. - Better checking for when an MD region can be modified. - Proper size checking when adding a new spare object to a RAID region. - Code cleanups. - Documentation updates. Changes since -pre3 =================== - Bug fixes for: - Online move and replace - RAID-1 and RAID-5 error handling - RAID-1 and RAID-linear resize - Shrinking containers - "Time-remaining" progress indicators - Updated kernel patches for 2.6. - Documentation updates Changes since -pre2 =================== - Bug Fixes - Engine: correctly detect errors when expanding or shrinking a container. - LVM plugin: make sure each PV is at least big enough to hold the LVM metadata. - Device-Mapper - creating device tables. - building snapshot as a module for 2.6. - Rebuild kernel patches for 2.6.0-test9 - Documentation updates Changes since -pre1 =============== - Bug fixes for: - Online replace - RAID-1 - RAID-5 - GUI window behavior - Allow multiple simultaneous ioctls to Device-Mapper. - Use the 32-bit ioctl to get disk geometry (instead of the 16-bit version). - Documentation updates |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-08-15 18:31:18
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The EVMS team is announcing the next maintenance release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 2.1.1 is now available for download at the project web site: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms This release is primarily intended to allow EVMS to work with the new Device-Mapper interface, but also contains other miscellaneous bug fixes. This version of EVMS will continue to work with existing 2.4 kernels compiled for EVMS 2.1.0 or 2.0.x, but users are encouraged to upgrade to the new Device-Mapper kernel driver if possible. Due to the new Device-Mapper release, the EVMS installation instructions have changed, especially with regard to patching and building your kernel. Please see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.1 package for information about installing and getting started with this EVMS release. In addition, support for using LILO with your kernel images on an EVMS volume now has limited support, based on the LILO-devmapper patches from Christophe Saout. Please see the INSTALL file for more details. EVMS 2.1.1 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.6.0-test3 kernels. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS Changelog 2.1.1 (2003-08-15): - First maintenance release for 2.1.0. - Allow EVMS to run with version 3 or 4 of the Device-Mapper ioctl interface. - Update Snapshot activation sequence to work with DMv4. - Update BBR and Sparse kernel modules to use new dm-io and dm-daemon modules. - New APIs for mounting volumes to allow mounting and checking mounts on remote machines in a cluster. - Add -fno-strict-aliasing to compiler flags to prevent warnings when building with gcc 3.3. - Allow disk-manager to discover loop devices as disks. - Add instructions for patching LILO to work with EVMS volumes. - Based on Christophe Saout's lilo-devmapper patches. - Miscellaneous bug fixes. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-06-30 20:53:22
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The EVMS team is announcing the next major release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 2.1.0 is now available for download at the project web site: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms This release is for the new EVMS design, which is based on user-space volume discovery and communication with existing kernel drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. Please see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.0 package for information about installing and getting started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is based on user-space discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume activation. Please see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate your volumes using the EVMS user-interfaces and utilities. The INSTALL file also contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing 2.4 kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches. Please see the README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes concerning this release and it's new features. EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ EVMS ChangeLog 2.1.0 (2003-06-30): - Second major release of the new EVMS design - New Features - Clustering - RSCT plugin - allow EVMS to operate in RSCT clusters. - Snapshotting - Reset - reset a snapshot volume without needing to delete and recreate the snapshot. - Rollback - copy the saved contents of the snapshot back to the origin. - Software-RAID - RAID-1 reconfigure - RAID-1 resize - RAID-Linear resize - New Multipath plugin - UIs - When saving changes, add a "Details" button to display the list of items that have changes to save. - Macintosh Segment Manager - recognize Macintosh-native disk partitions. - Bug Fixes - Allow the engine to open if the lock-file cannot be created and the filesystem is read-only. - Fix problems with using O_DIRECT on 2.4 kernels. - Improvements to the HA plugin due to fixes in Linux-HA. - Better support for discovering disks on systems using devfs. - Remove evms_deactivate as a UI utility. This program should only be used for testing. |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-06-17 19:23:28
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Greetings, Kernel patches are now available for running EVMS 2.0.1 on a 2.4.21 kernel. Please see: http://evms.sf.net/patches/2.0.1/2.4.21/ Please see the short README file in the above directory for how to apply these patches to your kernel. Please email evm...@li... with any questions. -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-06-17 19:05:58
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Greetings, Kernel patches are now available for running EVMS 1.2.1 on a 2.4.21 kernel. Please see: http://evms.sf.net/patches/1.2.1/2.4.21/ Please see the short README file in the above directory for how to apply these patches to your kernel. Please email evm...@li... with any questions. -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ |
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From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-05-02 22:55:41
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On Friday 02 May 2003 16:07, Kevin Corry wrote: > The EVMS team is announcing the first bug-fix release in the Enterprise > Volume Management System 2.0 series. Package 2.0.1 is now available for > download at the project web site: Along with the new 2.0.1 package, some new documentation is available on the EVMS website. http://evms.sf.net/architecture/ - An overview of the internal architecture of the EVMS engine. http://evms.sf.net/clustering/ - An overview of the approach to clustering support. http://evms.sf.net/roadmap.html - A list of some of the major features EVMS will be working on for future releases. -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ |
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