On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:53:01PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > I thought that EVMS got the flick in favour of LVM2, and that the LVM2 > team had decided to develop its management tools for LVM2. OTOH, I could > be confusing myself, LVM is not something I've needed to play with yet.
LVM2 and EVMS are entirely different projects with similar goals; they are neither mutually exclusive nor interdependent. In its first major release, EVMS had implemented its own kernel runtime component. It was this particular patch which was not accepted into the mainstream kernel, and a lot of unjustified FUD has been spread about the EVMS project as a result. The second major release of EVMS (currently in alpha) is based on the device-mapper kernel component, which provides many of the kernel services that a volume manager needs. LVM2 uses this same kernel component with different userland tools. Here is an announcement from the EVMS team explaining the situation in depth: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.0/1562.html -- - mdz
