<s>
Enterprise	B-Application
Volume	I-Application
Management	I-Application
System	I-Application
(	O
EVMS	O
)	O
was	O
a	O
flexible	O
,	O
integrated	O
volume	B-Application
management	O
software	O
used	O
to	O
manage	O
storage	O
systems	O
under	O
Linux	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Handle	O
many	O
different	O
file	B-Application
systems	I-Application
(	O
Ext2	B-Application
,	O
Ext3	B-Application
,	O
FAT	B-Application
,	O
JFS	B-Application
,	O
NTFS	B-Application
,	O
OCFS2	B-Application
,	O
OpenGFS	O
,	O
ReiserFS	B-Application
,	O
Swap	O
,	O
XFS	B-Application
etc	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
EVMS	O
is	O
licensed	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
version	O
2	O
or	O
later	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
a	O
while	O
,	O
both	O
LVM	B-Application
and	O
EVMS	O
were	O
competing	O
for	O
inclusion	O
in	O
the	O
mainline	O
kernel	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
EVMS	O
had	O
more	O
features	O
and	O
better	O
userland	O
tools	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
internals	O
of	O
LVM	B-Application
were	O
more	O
attractive	O
to	O
kernel	B-Operating_System
developers	O
,	O
so	O
in	O
the	O
end	O
LVM	B-Application
won	O
the	O
battle	O
for	O
inclusion	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
response	O
,	O
the	O
EVMS	O
team	O
decided	O
to	O
concentrate	O
on	O
porting	O
the	O
EVMS	O
userland	O
tools	O
to	O
work	O
with	O
the	O
LVM	B-Application
kernelspace	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2008	O
Novell	O
announced	O
that	O
the	O
company	O
would	O
be	O
moving	O
from	O
EVMS	O
to	O
LVM	B-Application
in	O
future	O
editions	O
of	O
their	O
SUSE	O
products	O
,	O
while	O
continuing	O
to	O
fully	O
support	O
customers	O
using	O
EVMS	O
.	O
</s>
