[Evms-announce] [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 2.4.0

[Kevin C. <kev...@us...>]

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.