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Thanks, Luciano, and congratulations. We'll miss your participation. Enjoy your new gig! -- Ben -- Opinions are mine, not Intel's > -----Original Message----- > From: opengfs-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:opengfs-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf > Of Luciano Chavez > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 4:37 PM > To: opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [ogfs-dev]opengfs evms fsim > > > Hello y'all, > > Last week I checked into the EVMS CVS tree some final code > for the EVMS > File System Interface Module (FSIM) for OpenGFS. I think it's the 26th > or 27th plug-in developed for EVMS (not counting the multiple > personality plug-ins for MD support). It is able to: > > - probe, recognize and claim opengfs external journals, > filesystem, and > cidev > - mkfs an opengfs filesystem along with the journals and specify the > cidev for memexp protocol (if the opengfs tools are available) > - coordinate an expand operation of the filesystem as a volume is > expanded with EVMS (mounted of course) > - fsck an opengfs filesystem volume that is mounted > - unmkfs (zero out selected journal, cidev, and filesystem > meta-data so > that it is no longer recognized as having opengfs on it). if > you unmkfs > the filesystem, the fsim also clears out metadata from the associated > external journals and cidev automatically > > While I concede it doesn't have the full functionality to please > everyone (ogfsconf support to configure the cidev is not there), it is > still somewhat useful. > > The FSIM will most likely show up in the next EVMS release (2.3) and I > hope you all can give it a try and make improvements as you feel are > needed. > > With that, I am sorry to say I won't be participating as much with > either EVMS (which will continue strong without me) or OpenGFS as I've > taken a new position within IBM that is not quite a > development role but > will keep me busy nonetheless. > > Being that the fsim code is GPL'd, I'm sure it will be improved and > tweaked over time by someone out there. > > It was a real pleasure working with folks like Ben Cahill and Brian > Jackson and I will monitor y'all from time to time. > > -- > regards, > > Luciano Chavez > > lnx1138@us.ibm.com > http://evms.sourceforge.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Opengfs-devel mailing list > Opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Opengfs-devel mailing list Opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-devel