Geom Vinum backwards compatible?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 22:12:48 +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> 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.

This is a good idea even for old Vinum, but it wasn't enforced.  There
are cases where more than one drive can be an advantage (usually when
using up excess space).

Greg
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