FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 21 December 2004 at 13:42:40 -0500, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:00 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote:
>
>> I also do not think it belongs in the stable branch just yet :-D Any hope
>> of you fixing the old vinum in the 5.3 branch or is it a wait for the 5.4?
>
> AFAIK, the old vinum will *never* be "fixed" in the 5.3 branch or any
> subsequent branch, so don't hold your breath for 5.4.  The fact that it
> wasn't being fully GEOM-ified (and hence was dying from neglect in 5.x)
> was the whole reason for Lukas to embark on geom_vinum.

Well, actually the original intention was that Lukas would geomify
Vinum.  I think it was a mistake to start again.  We now have an old,
out of date version of Vinum, and a new, incomplete version gvinum.

Greg
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