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and EVMS were competing for inclusion in the mainline kernel. EVMS had more features and better userland tools, but the internals of LVM were more attractive to kernel developers, so in the end LVM won the battle for inclusion. In response, the EVMS team decided to concentrate on porting the EVMS
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Sometime after the release of version 2.5.5 on February 26, 2006, IBM discontinued development of the project. There have been no further releases. In 2008
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version 2 or later. EVMS is supported now in some Linux distributions, among others it is now (2008)
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was a flexible, integrated volume management software used to manage storage systems under
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announced that the company would be moving from EVMS to LVM in future editions of their
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products, while continuing to fully support customers using EVMS.
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contains information that is not included elsewhere in the article
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online or offline (depending on the file system's capabilities)
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Linux LVM and LVM2
volumes
disk partitioning
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Ext2
Ext3
FAT
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