gvinum/vinum on 6.0

Brian Szymanski ski at mediamatters.org
Thu Jan 12 03:03:22 PST 2006


>> Hmm, I upgraded to 6-STABLE and I'm still having the problem.
>
> Are you really using the very latest 6-STABLE?

Oops - serious egg on my face - my build must have failed and I rebooted
without checking the return value (sheepish grin)... I rebuilt and things
seem to work now - thanks & sorry for the false alarm!

I cannot tell you how happy I am to have (g?)vinum working in FreeBSD
again - I can finally upgrade my file servers!

One more question: Is gvinum on 6-STABLE's RAID-5 implementation
bit-compatible with R5 on vinum from 4.x/5.x? Would it be possible to
upgrade from vinum on 5.3 to gvinum on 6-STABLE without a dump/restore?

I probably won't do this out of paranoia, but am curious if it's possible.

Thanks again and cheers,
Brian

Brian Szymanski
Software and Systems Developer
Media Matters for America
ski at mediamatters.org



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