evms

[damNageHack]

EVMS provides a single, unified system for handling all of your storage management tasks. EVMS recognizes all of the disks on your system and allows for a variety of partitioning schemes. Software-RAID and logical volume groups can be managed in EVMS. Filesystems can be created and checked, and are automatically updated when changes are made to the underlying volumes. With EVMS, there is no longer a need for several individual utilities for performing each of these tasks.

Currently, EVMS recognizes:
* All locally attached disks
* DOS-style disk partitions (used extensively on Linux systems)
* GPT disk partitions (mainly used on IA-64)
* S/390 disk partitions (CDL/LDL)
* BSD disk partitions
* Macintosh disk partitions
* Linux MD/Software-RAID devices
* Linux LVM volume groups and logical volumes (versions 1 and 2)

Features that are currently included are:
* Bad Block Relocation
* Linear Drive Linking
* Generic Snapshotting

Currently, the following filesystems are supported:
* Ext2/3
* JFS
* ReiserFS
* XFS
* Swap
* OCFS2
* NTFS
* FAT

* GUI: gtk-based UI for use with graphical desktops.
* Text-Mode: ncurses-based terminal UI with the same look-and-feel as the GUI.
* Command-Line: shell-style UI to provide scripting functionality.

Nice screen shots here:
http://evms.sourceforge.net/gui_screen/
http://evms.sourceforge.net/text_mode_screen/

Any experiences? Can we get it for Salix? Would be great for server management, especially LVM :.. And probably for the installer too - i do not know about effort vs. benefit.

Disadvantage: They are writing that the kernel needs to be patched with evms support. Probably a newer default kernel should have it. Somebody knows more?

--with-static-glib

Specify this if the text-mode UI should be statically linked against the glib and panel libraries. This should make it possible to run evmsn without /usr being mounted.

Nice!

Okay, I could manage to build a package with support for readline (interpreter mode), ncurses & gtk. Unfortunately, glib v1 and gtk+ v1 is needed but there are repository packages available, problem? Probably the source can be ported to usage of v2, but there are just a lot of patches available and I have no mood to hack the source.
Maybe the package should be split into at least one for console (for core) and one for gtk (for base and full installation).

What do you think?

http://marc.info/?l=evms-devel&m=115834950225844&w=2

http://www.osnews.com/story/10288


Some test packages:
http://people.salixos.org/damnagehack/evms/

[Akuna]

What do you think?

Erm... nothing except that you seem to be talking to yourself?

As mentioned before, there really is no need to post unless there is something substantial to say.

Instead of posting 2 new posts on this thread it would have been more judicious to edit the first one & regroup everything together, don't you think?

Please take heed. Thank you.

Edit: That was fast, thank you.

[damNageHack]

Erm... nothing except that you seem to be talking to yourself?

Seems so. I guess nobody interested in such a package then ...

Instead of posting 2 new posts on this thread it would have been more judicious to edit the first one & regroup everything together, don't you think?

Ey ey sir. You can remove the two empty ones then.

[Akuna]

Seems so. I guess nobody interested in such a package then ...

Unfortunately it seems so at least for the moment, but this could change who knows... no need to force things in the meanwhile.

Ey ey sir. You can remove the two empty ones then.

Done.