Anyone using EVMS?

[David Abrahams]

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?

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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