Ubuntu installs and activates EVMS by default, but gives us no way to set up EVMS volumes in any installer, and AFAICT all of EVMS' functionality is provided by mdraid and LVM. I've been unable to get a convincing answer out of the EVMS people about why anyone would convert a filesystem to EVMS (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.evms.devel/6446/focus=6464) when you can get all the touted UI benefits of the system by using the EVMS UI tools on LVM/mdraid volumes, which begs the question about why EVMS conversion writes any new metadata to the disk and what EVMS uses that metadata for.
So, if you're using it, what benefits are you getting? Are you just using the UI, or do you have a true EVMS filesystem? And if nobody's using it, shouldn't the installer just leave it out? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
