They say that it has been unmaintained for more than a 1.5 years now, and interferes with the 2.6 kernel. Best I start looking for another solution. mdadm here i come

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Evms

Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) mounts harddrives and disk storage space in Linux in advanced and flexible ways. See its website and user guide for details.

In Ubuntu, I originally had to use its auto-installer to find and install EVMS binaries. I traditionally have used the EVMS ncurses interface, which is a text user interface.

• sudo evmsn or sudo evmsgui
• find needed logical volume
  • /dev/evms/lvm2/Media/Car...
• hit Enter to get menu options
• choose Mount...
• enter directory where you want the volume to mount
  • /media/documents
  • this was retrieved from the end of my custom samba configuration file smb.conf
    • sudo nano -w /etc/samba/smb.conf

I need to automate this mount on startup, possibly by learning how to do the mount through EVMS in Command Line Interface, and then putting that into the fstab file.

• Ctrl+K in finder
• smb://lms
  • MSHOME
  • nyeates1
  • password

• udevd process was gobbling 50% CPU and disk thrashing from writing to log files constantly
  • EVMS official explanation http://evms.sourceforge.net/install/kernel.html#bdclaim
  • Bug and comments https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/115616
  • Following command to stop udev / udevd

    • sudo udevd stop

    • sudo /etc/init.d/udev stop

  • If that didnt work, I ungracefully ‘killed’ the process

    • top
      sudo kill 25293

  • Add the following lines to configuration file /etc/evms.conf on the sysfs_devices.exclude section. Per directions on evms sourceforge link above.

    •         # This line will exclude some disks that are alread being used  
              # by the root OS. There is a problem with both the kernel and
              # EVMS trying to get to the same disks. See the following link:
              # http://evms.sourceforge.net/install/kernel.html#bdclaim
              # exclude = [ hda sda ]