Messages in this thread | | | From | Kevin Corry <> | Subject | [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 0.9.2 (Beta) | Date | Sat, 9 Mar 2002 10:38:56 -0600 |
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The EVMS team is announcing its third beta series release. Package 0.9.2 of the Enterprise Volume Management System is now available for download at the project web site: http://www.sf.net/projects/evms
Highlights for version 0.9.2:
v0.9.2 - 3/09/02 - Core Engine/Kernel - Fixed commit ordering bug. - Added kernel config support for ia64 and s390. - Export empty disks as compatibility volumes. - Engine configuration change. - Now requires --with-debug=basic to build with debugging symbols. - GUI - Added Feature Objects panel back to the main window. - Context pop-up menu items to jump to an object's parent, consuming container, and/or producing container. - Display detailed commit-time messages in GUI status bar. - Option panels now only show active options (with a button to optionally show all available options). - Added EVMS FAQ to Help menu. - Text-mode UI - Support for expand-container. - Support for modify-object-properties. - Support for FSIM operations (mkfs,unmkfs,fsck,defrag). - Command Line - Multi-command mode is now the default. The "-m" option has been removed, and a new "-s" option has been created to start in single command mode. - C style comments /* ... */ are now allowed in command files. - Updated online help. - New man page for command line. - BBR Plugin - Now uses two kernel threads for performing I/O on replacement sectors and updating the BBR mapping table. - Snapshot Plugin - Changes to work with new commit-time ordering. - Fixed kernel bug that was limiting the size of a snapshot object. - MD Plugin - New ioctls supported in kernel. - Add, Remove, Activate, Deactivate, Get_Array_Info. - Added support for these ioctls to RAID-1 and RAID-4/5 personalities. - LVM Plugin - Changes to snapshotting code to work with new commit-time ordering. - Bug fixes in expand and shrink option handling. - AIX Plugin - Kernel discovery and I/O path bug-fixes. - Utilities - evms_devnode_fixup can now run in daemon mode.
Kevin Corry corryk@us.ibm.com Enterprise Volume Management System http://www.sf.net/projects/evms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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