question: EVMS status

[Warren Beldad]

Hey guys,

I have here a simple question.
I have lately evaluated EVMS and found lots of problems. I also noticed that the last released was already more than a year old. (Feb 26, 2006), just want to ask if EVMS is still maintained?

thanks a lot,
warren



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[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:37:56PM +0800, Warren Beldad wrote:
> I have lately evaluated EVMS and found lots of problems. I also noticed that
> the last released was already more than a year old. (Feb 26, 2006), just
> want to ask if EVMS is still maintained?

IBM has pulled all resources from EVMS. Some of the people previously
assigned to EVMS are doing some work in their spare time, but apart from
that, it's pretty much unmaintained.

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[Warren Beldad]

ok cool, thanks for the info.
I will be just posting some problems then.

warren

On 9/11/07, Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@...> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:37:56PM +0800, Warren Beldad wrote:
> I have lately evaluated EVMS and found lots of problems. I also noticed that
> the last released was already more than a year old. (Feb 26, 2006), just
> want to ask if EVMS is still maintained?

IBM has pulled all resources from EVMS. Some of the people previously
assigned to EVMS are doing some work in their spare time, but apart from
that, it's pretty much unmaintained.

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[Alan-8]

       
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:46 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:37:56PM +0800, Warren Beldad wrote:
> > I have lately evaluated EVMS and found lots of problems. I also noticed that
> > the last released was already more than a year old. (Feb 26, 2006), just
> > want to ask if EVMS is still maintained?
>
> IBM has pulled all resources from EVMS. Some of the people previously
> assigned to EVMS are doing some work in their spare time, but apart from
> that, it's pretty much unmaintained.

Any idea why?  I have a couple of servers with EVMS in use, and I'd hate
to upgrade the kernel one day and have things blow up.  Anyone know if
support from IBM will return, or is this the honeymoon fading between
IBM and Linux?

Any alternative technologies people are using?  Or is it back to plain
old LVM?


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[Dirk Heinrichs-3]

Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb ext Alan Bailward:

> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:46 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:37:56PM +0800, Warren Beldad wrote:
> > > I have lately evaluated EVMS and found lots of problems. I also
> > > noticed that the last released was already more than a year old. (Feb
> > > 26, 2006), just want to ask if EVMS is still maintained?
> >
> > IBM has pulled all resources from EVMS. Some of the people previously
> > assigned to EVMS are doing some work in their spare time, but apart
> > from that, it's pretty much unmaintained.
>
> Any idea why?  I have a couple of servers with EVMS in use, and I'd hate
> to upgrade the kernel one day and have things blow up.

Good to know it's not in the kernel.

> Anyone know if
> support from IBM will return, or is this the honeymoon fading between
> IBM and Linux?

I already asked them to officially call for a new maintainer.

> Any alternative technologies people are using?  Or is it back to plain
> old LVM?

EVMS uses all the alternative technologies, incl. plain old LVM, under the
hood. So the only thing you would loose is the nice user interfaces.
However, this is what I would hate, though.

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