Vinum ... to oblivion?

[Ben Woods]

The FreeBSD 10.1 release notes actually note some minor changes to
gvinum... so it definitely doesn't appear to be deprecated.


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From: Benjamin Woods
woodsb02 at gmail.com

On 24 February 2015 at 20:09, Matthias Petermann <matthias at d2ux.org> wrote:

> Am 2015-02-23 20:12, schrieb asv:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I sadly realised that the gvinum section in handbook is gone (possibly
>> since quite a while already). Nonetheless the tool is still available on
>> 10.1-RELEASE.
>> But I don't understand why bringing this valuable tool to oblivion as I
>> don't see other alternatives to (for example) achieve the following:
>> MIRRORING + LVM + UFS2 (with MAC labels)
>>
>
> A bit surprising to me, too. Haven't seen any note on gvinum deprecation.
> I'd also be interested in lightweight alternatives. I currently use gvinum
> for on the fly creation of volumes with UFS2 on a Raspberry Pi with just
> 512MB of RAM.
>
> Best regards,
> Matthias
>
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