From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 14:44:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B66116A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:44:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi (ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi [193.64.26.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B19D43D1D for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:44:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jau@ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi) Received: from ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi (qq2uqn01oadmuq0a@localhost [127.0.0.1])id j3AEiH1J013235 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:44:17 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from jau@localhost)j3AEiHBC013234 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:44:17 +0300 (EEST) Posted-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:44:17 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: <200504101444.j3AEiHBC013234@ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi> To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:44:17 +0300 (EEST) From: jau@iki.fi (Jukka A. Ukkonen) Sender: jau@iki.fi Latin-Date: dies Solis X Aprilie a.d. MMV Organization: Private person OS-Platform: FreeBSD Phone: +358-9-6215280 (home) / +358-500-606671 (gsm) Content-Conversion: prohibited X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25+pgp] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: 5.4 & vinum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jau@iki.fi List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:44:22 -0000 Greetings, Has anyone been successful creating new vinum volume configurations or dropping old configurations on FreeBSD-5.4 pre-releases? AFAIK the old vinum does not work properly. At least it keeps complaining me about problems. Additionally gvinum which has been reported as a supported replacement for the old vinum does not work either. The latter seems to even be missing support for many of the commands mentioned in "man vinum". E.g. dumpconfig, info, and resetconfig do not work. To make the pain really hurt there is no man page for gvinum. Obvious enough, replacing old systems which have been running 4.x with the old perfectly functional vinum, has become very hard. (OTOH things like ath, ehci, etc. are only available in 5.x.) The upgrade should be created on fresh hard drives and the drives replaced when the new installation is ready. So, it is vitally important to be able to create and drop configurations for vinum before the upgrade can proceed. If anyone has an operational 5.4 + vinum installation which was generated fresh on 5.3 or 5.4, any experiences, sample configurations, and notes about the how the installation was really done would be more than welcome. Cheers, // jau .--- ..- -.- -.- .- .- .-.-.- ..- -.- -.- --- -. . -. / Jukka A. Ukkonen, Mawit Ltd, Finland /__ M.Sc. (sw-eng & cs) (Phone) +358-500-606-671 / Internet: Jukka.Ukkonen(a)Mawit.Com (Home) +358-9-6215-280 / Internet: ukkonen(a)nic.funet.fi v Internet: jau(a)iki.fi .--- .- ..- ...-.- .. -.- .. .-.-.- ..-. .. + + + + My opinions are mine and mine alone, not my employers. + + + +