Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

[Doug Ambrisko]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:22:53AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
| On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 15:09, Chris <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com> wrote:
| >
| > I can only state that I use it only occasionally, and that when I do. I
| > have had no problems with it. I'm glad that it's there when I need it.
| 
| Thanks for the reply. Can you comment on your use cases - in
| particular, did you use mirror, stripe, or raid5? If the first two
| then gmirror, gconcat, gstripe, and/or graid are suitable
| replacements.
| 
| I'm not looking to deprecate it just because it's old, but because of
| a mismatch between user and developer expectations about its
| stability.

It would be nice if graid got full support for RAID5 alteast I'm not sure
how much the others are used for that are not fully supported (RAID4,
RAID5, RAID5E, RAID5EE, RAID5R, RAID6, RAIDMDF) according to the man
page.  I started to hack in RAID5 full support and try to avoid writes
if members didn't change.  This limits our VROC support.

Thanks,

Doug A.