From: Kevin C. <kev...@us...> - 2003-10-27 19:43:26
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Greetings EVMS Users, The third pre-release for the EVMS 2.2.0 package is now available at: http://evms.sourceforge.net/patches/2.2.0/prerelease/ This release is supported on 2.4.19 through 2.4.22 kernels, as well as 2.6.0-test9. As this is a pre-release, there may still be some small bugs to work out, but we'd greatly appreciate any EVMS users who would like to help with testing this new package. Our goal is to have a final release ready by the end of this month. The RAID-1 failure handling is working well in most cases. In addition, the RAID-5 failure handling should be working on 2.4 kernels. However, there are still a couple bugs we are working on with RAID-5 on 2.6 kernels. If you are using RAID-5 on 2.6, it would be best to wait for the next pre-release (in a couple days). Online move support is available for certain plugins. Moving segments (owned by the DOS, GPT, or s390 plugins) can now be performed online, as can object-replace. PE and PV moves in the LVM plugin must still be performed with the volume unmounted. Online move support for the LVM plugin should be available in a future release. An experimental version of the Device-Mapper snapshot module is now available for 2.6 kernels. However, the VFS-lock patch has not yet been ported to 2.6. Thus, you won't yet be able to take clean snapshots of mounted journalled filesystems on 2.6. A version of the VFS-lock patch for 2.6 should be available in the near future. The sample init-ramdisk image has been updated for 2.2.0-pre3, and is available in the above location along with the -pre3 package. Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.2.0-pre3 package for installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions or find any bugs, please send an email to the EVMS mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit our IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). -- Kevin Corry kev...@us... http://evms.sourceforge.net/ 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 |