PF wrote: > What is the point/purpose/benefit of EVMS and why does TSL use it? For a > relative newbie like me it just makes things confusing.
It was chosen by the installer development team. They thought, correctly or not, that evms was the most suitable choice for partitioning tool in a new installer. Most likely due to the fact that evms is the only tool that can do both partitioning, raid and lvm setup, all within the same framework. The installer developers that handled the evms module is, as far as I know, no longer a part of the Trustix team, so a more in-depth explanation is not viable. The only bad thing about evms, is the lack of testing of the evms integration in the installer and mkinitrd tool. Evms in itself still seems to be suitable for these tasks, however if implemented today the evms integration in the installer would be much more streamlined, as the current implementation is flawed due to licensing limitations. The installer was originally written to be licensed under a proprietary license, and could not have a normal API-integration with the open source tools it uses. The installer and mkinitrd sources are there, so feel free to hack out a solution to any problems... ;) kind regards c -- Christian Haugan Toldnes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
