[Evms-announce] [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 2.5.5

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

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.