Armonk, NY — (press release excerpt) — IBM today announced world-class volume management technology for Linux that is designed to streamline and enhance the operating system's storage management capabilities. The new technology is the result of extensive collaboration among developers in the Linux open community and the IBM Linux Technology… Center(LTC).

The Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) version 1.0.0 integrates all aspects of disk, partition, and volume management into a single, enterprise level design and implementation, bringing industrial strength features found in proprietary volume managers to Linux. As a result of the highly modular, plug-in nature of EVMS, customers will be able to use this technology as their companies' needs grow and change and as new technologies become available.

EVMS is 100% open source, available for all community members to use, and is licensed under the GPL.

EVMS technology significantly expands the Volume Management capabilities found in Linux today by allowing users to access data and manage volumes from virtually any operating system. In addition, when used to emulate Volume Managers found in other non-Linux operating systems, EVMS can help significantly reduce the expense and technical barriers associated with migrating to a Linux platform.

The EVMS project is on SourceForge. The community is very active and has been involved with EVMS since its inception in January of 2001. Several Linux distributors are currently evaluating EVMS for inclusion in upcoming releases.

EVMS version 1.0.0 provides support for multiple disk partitioning schemes, mirroring (RAID 1), striping with and without parity (RAID 0,4,5), drive linking, bad block relocation, and volume groups.

 
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