Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:38:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vinum to gvinum help Message-ID: <20060627010836.GH10845@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060626171536.GA16235@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <1151338928.2186.4.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20060626171536.GA16235@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--rCwQ2Y43eQY6RBgR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 26 June 2006 at 19:15:36 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: >> I have an i386 system currently running 5.2.1-RELEASE with a vinum >> mirror array (2 drives comprising /usr ). I want to upgrade this to >> 5.5-RELEASE which, if I understand correctly, no longer supports vinum >> arrays. Would simply chaning /boot/loader.conf to read gvinum_load >> instead of vinum_load work or would the geom layer prevent this from >> working properly? If not, is there a recommended way of upgrading a >> vinum array to a gvinum or gmirror array? > > Lost of things have changed between 5.2.1 and 5.5. I think it would be > best to make a backup and do a clean reinstall. To the best of my knowledge, the Vinum on-disk layout has not changed, so you shouldn't need to reinstall the data. A backup is always an excellent idea, of course :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --rCwQ2Y43eQY6RBgR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEoIUUIubykFB6QiMRAq97AJ9DzNHaoigFwPI+olHE+3s0P2yfBgCZASaf iKb+wax1nRcATZAHwNIOMlo= =QqhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rCwQ2Y43eQY6RBgR--
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