vinum to gvinum help

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote:
> I have an i386 system currently running 5.2.1-RELEASE with a vinum
> mirror array (2 drives comprising /usr ). I want to upgrade this to
> 5.5-RELEASE which, if I understand correctly, no longer supports vinum
> arrays. Would simply chaning /boot/loader.conf to read gvinum_load
> instead of vinum_load work or would the geom layer prevent this from
> working properly? If not, is there a recommended way of upgrading a
> vinum array to a gvinum or gmirror array?

Lost of things have changed between 5.2.1 and 5.5. I think it would be
best to make a backup and do a clean reinstall.

Roland
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