Geom Vinum backwards compatible?

Lukas Ertl le at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 12 13:12:59 PDT 2004


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, David Gilbert wrote:

> Is it even expected that if I upgrade a machine with vinum drives from
> old vinum (~5.2-current) to geom vinum (5.3-BETAx) that geom vinum
> will recognise and use the old vinum partitions?

It should work fine.  There are some corner cases that are not supported 
right now.  For example, you should have only one vinum drive per disk.

cheers,
le

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