freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday, 29 October 2004 at 14:20:40 -0600, secmgr wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> A bit of background: we know that 'gvinum' will replace Vinum; the
>> original intention had been to do it seamlessly, but for various
>> reasons that did happen.  Then we decided that we should leave them
>> both in the tree until gvinum had the full functionality of Vinum.
>> It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea.  Lukas is
>> (understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly
>> there, I'm not going to do any further work on Vinum in FreeBSD 5.
>> Given the problems, I'd suggest that we yank it.  I'm copying the
>> release engineering team.  Re, what do you think?
>
> Not that I've got a lot of say in the matter, but I would vote for this
> too. (along with migration info in the release notes).

I've spoken to Scott Long on the subject, and it looks likely that
we'll do something like this; but re haven't made a final decision.

> There are also some minor changes needed to the docs on vinumvm.org
> for gvinum/newfs (5.3) to correct new paths and switches.

So far, vinumvm.org has no information about gvinum at all.  Hopefully
that will change at some time.

Greg
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