GEOM + Vinum

[Lukas Ertl]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kevin Wooten wrote:

> >My 2 cents is to start building the house from the ground with the geom
> >classes, then add on the algorithms from the existing vinum.
> >and end up with the roof as is the the vinum configuration tool.
> >
> My point is that with the GEOM config...who needs vinum config??

People should have a clean update path and FreeBSD has always respected
POLA.  What I know from the recent thread about vinum and GEOM, and given
that there will be more upcoming changes to the I/O infrastructure, vinum
is likely to be broken once FreeBSD 5.3 is out.

The 5.3 branch should clearly be a -stable branch once again, and if we
want people to finally upgrade from 4.x, they have to be able to do it
without much fuss.

So, providing a completely compatible geom_vinum is a must, IMHO.

regards,
le

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