Anyone using EVMS?

[David Kempe]

I am considering using it for an unfinished task for a client. They have 
1RU servers with 4 750Gb drives in them for file storage. I am having 
trouble with all the available tools, as the onboard hardware raid makes 
that into a 2.3Tb volume and the bios can't boot that. So we are booting 
off usb keys, but now fdisk and cfdisk and lots of other tools have this 
2TB limit. EVMS doesn't seem to suffer the same problems.
I haven't had time to fix it up yet, so I will report back once I do.

thanks

dave

David Abrahams wrote:
> 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?
>