vinum swap no longer working.

[Mark Frasa]

On 2004.10.11 10:43:02 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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> Overlong lines.
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> On Sunday, 10 October 2004 at 19:23:24 +0200, Mark Frasa wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After installing FreeBSD 5.2.1, because 4.10 and even 5.1 did not
> > reconized mij SATA controller, i CVS-upped and upgraded to 5.2.1-p11
> > RELEASE
> >
> > After that I configured Vinum to mirror (RAID 1) 2 80G Maxtor SATA
> > disks.
> >
> > The error i am getting is:
> >
> > swapon /dev/vinum/swap > swapon: /dev/vinum/swap: Operation not
> > supported by device
> >
> > I have taken notice of this message:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > [missing attribution to Greg Lehey]
> >> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:00:04 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote:
> >>> This may belong on current,> I upgraded to 5.2 from 5.1 and my
> >>> kernel (GENERIC) now refuses to use /dev/vinum/swap as my swap
> >>> device.>> # swapon /dev/vinum/swap> swapon: /dev/vinum/swap:
> >>> Operation not supported by device> # Is this a 5.2 bug or do I have
> >>> vinum incorrectly configured?
> >>
> >> This is a 5.2 bug.  It was last mentioned here a day or two ago, and
> >> I'm currently chasing it.
> >
> > Since this is a message from the 28th of December 2003 , can anyone
> > tell me when this issue will be solved?  Otherwise i have to
> > consider buying PATA disks which allows me to run 4.10 again.
> 
> Vinum is being rewritten; the new one is called gvinum or geom_vinum.
> It handles swap, and it should be in 5.3.
> 
> Greg
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Does the vinum in FreeBSD 4.10 has the same problem? 
If not i might consider to buy PATA disks and run software raid because 
i rather use 4.10 then 5.3.

Mark.
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