GEOM + Vinum

[Peter Blok]

Hi,

I'm one of the users in need of a clean update path. I will dedicate a system 
for update and geom_vinum tests.

Peter


On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:25, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> 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