GEOM, Vinum difference

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Hi,

I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD 
offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM 
architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks 
-- any advantages/ disadvantages to either approach?

I did check the archives before posting this question. Got a couple of 
hits, but they seem to be old info. Hence this question.

The GEOM utilities seem to be newer, fancier, and probably the future. 
Vinum seems to be how things used to happen earlier. After GEOM was 
introduced, if Vinum had been discarded, I would have understood. But it 
wasn't. Instead, it was rewritten for GEOM and is probably still 
actively maintained. So I wonder why we have two ways of doing the same 
tasks ...

What I understand from the archives is that Vinum was _probably_ rewritten 
for GEOM coz the GEOM utilities were still new and not as time tested as 
Vinum. Is that the case? So will Vinum continue to be around for a while 
or it be discarded?


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