EVMS?

EVMS is supposed to provide a single, uniform interface for disk
management, as well as a "plug in" type architecture that allows it to
easily manage and understand different types of underlying partition
schemes.

Are you using Software raid under Linux ? I believe Novell's docs
state that NSS volumes can only support RAID 0 and RAID 1 under OES .
You might want to check into that, since it could impact what you are
trying to do. EVMS supports raid through the kernel's "MD" drive and
the EVMS MD plugin...so I would think you could do it..but without
trying it...

Hope that helps.

More info on EVMS is available at http://evms.sourceforge.net

chander

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_V=F6lker?= Wrote:
> Yohoo!
>
> Hmmm... is there anybody here who can explain me the EMVS-things?
>
> I've worked for some years with the LVM from Linux. For what ist the
> evms good?
> Ok, evms is afaik needed for nss, which is needed for an
> netware-volume.
> But how can I use evams?
>
> Our server hold serveral disks. I don't want the / go to evms, just
> the
> data-disks. The data-disks are:
> 1x software-raid5 with 8 hdds (/dev/md2)
> 2x hardware-raid5 in a lvm2 volume group with two lvs on it
> 1x hardware-raid5 "free"
>
> Are there any hints for using evms? I've read many docs, but didn't
> understand it. Whats the advantage vs. LVM?
>
> Take me on your hands, please ;)


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chander