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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    [Evms-devel] Pre-Release 3 for EVMS 2.5.0
From:       Kevin Corry <kevcorry () us ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2004-12-18 4:38:04
Message-ID: 200412172238.04976.kevcorry () us ! ibm ! com
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The EVMS team is announcing the third pre-release of the upcoming EVMS 2.5.0 
package. The source package and sample init-ramdisk image can be found at:

http://evms.sourceforge.net/patches/2.5.0/pre/

Since this is still a pre-release, we'd greatly appreciate anyone who is able 
to help test this new version and the new features that are now available and 
help flush out any remaining bugs. Please see the README file in the source 
package for important notes about the new features, and the INSTALL file for 
instructions on installation and basic setup.

Please send any questions or bug-reports to the EVMS mailing list 
(evms-devel@lists.sf.net) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, 
#evms).

-- 
Kevin Corry
kevcorry@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net


Changes from -pre2 to -pre3
===========================
- Metadata backups
  - Add backup command to the Actions menu in the GUI and ncurses UI.
  - Warning and error message changes.
  - Man-page updates.
- BBR Segment Manager
  - Fix segfault in deactivation code.
  - Fix kill-sector handling in segment-delete code.
- MD
  - Add support for metadata backup routines.
- CLI
  - Fix segfault due to underallocated memory.


EVMS Changelog
==============
- 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 misleading log messages.
    - 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.


Still To-Be-Completed
=====================
- New MD superblock support will be delayed until EVMS 2.5.1.



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