Vinum ... to oblivion?

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Thu Feb 26 15:05:37 UTC 2015


In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 560, Issue 4, Message: 13
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:43:25 -0700 (MST) Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
 > On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Alberto Mijares wrote:
 > 
 > >>
 > >> I had proposed and even done the work to make that chapter into a separate
 > >> article.  Then I discarded it when it was pointed out that the existing
 > >> version should be in the archives.  Which it now... is not.
 > >>
 > >> With some effort, it could be resurrected into an article again.
 > >
 > >
 > > The book The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, has a chapter covering
 > > vinum and it almost hasn't change since then (AFAIK). The book is part
 > > of the FreeBSD documentation project, so it could be referenced from
 > > the handbook or a starting point for the proposed article.
 > 
 > That was where the Handbook vinum chapter originated.
 > 
 > I have recreated the article:
 > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/

Great.  I've never used gvinum and probably never will, but I've always 
appreciated that article as a well-written intro to RAID and All That.

thanks, Ian


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