Patches for 2.6.3 kernels for EVMS 2.2.2. The latest DM patchset from http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.3/2.6.3-udm3.tar.bz2 is a prerequisite. See the install instructions at http://evms.sf.net/install/ for more details before applying these patches. Apply each patch with: cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.3/ patch -p1 < filename.patch bd-claim.patch: Patch to allow EVMS to activate volumes on disks that also contain mounted kernel-partitions. See the comments in the patch file for more details. dm-origin.patch: Allow an origin device to be activated without any active snapshots. dm-bbr.patch: Patch to provide a Bad-Block-Relocation target for Device-Mapper. Required if you want to use BBR devices.