Enterprise Volume Management System
Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) is a flexible, integrated volume management software used to manage storage systems under Linux.
Its features include:
- Handle EVMS, Linux LVM and LVM2 volumes
- Handle many kinds of disk partitioning schemes
- Handle many different file systems (Ext2, Ext3, FAT, JFS, NTFS, OCFS2, OpenGFS, ReiserFS, Swap, XFS etc.)
- Multi-disk (MD) management
- Software RAID: level 0, 1, 4 and 5 (no support for level 6 and 10)
- Drive linking (device concatenation)
- Multipath I/O support
- Manage shared cluster storage
- Expand and shrink volumes and file systems online or offline (depending on the file system's capabilities)
- Snapshots (frozen images of volumes), optionally writable
- Conversion between different volume types
- Move partitions
- Make, check and repair file systems
- Bad block relocation
- Three types of user interface: GUI, text mode interface and CLI
- Backup and restore the EVMS metadata
EVMS is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. EVMS is supported now in some Linux distributions, among others it is now (2008) SUSE, Debian and Gentoo
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