Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:04:15 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0? Message-ID: <44800D1F.3010200@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <d4f1333a0606011812u785f06d5td9030fa5c2ecbed@mail.gmail.com> References: <d4f1333a0606011812u785f06d5td9030fa5c2ecbed@mail.gmail.com>
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Travis H. wrote: > > Is there some kind of IP lawsuit over vinum or something? If so, it's never been mentioned ;-) It's a valid question, but I don't think Greg's that kind of guy. As for Veritas, I *think* they had some sort of agreement (re: the name), (but I could be blowing smoke there); IIRC, vinum(8) was "patterned after the idea of" the Veritas software, and not in any way a "copy" or "clone" of it.... As others have stated, vinum has been replaced by "gvinum". Greg had stated in the past that the GEOM layer's introduction had "badly broken vinum", so I'm guessing that vinum was removed so that no one would attempt to use it on a newer system and get "unexpected" results. My $0.02, IANAL, IANAE, etc., Kevin Kinsey -- It is now 10 p.m. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is? -- Elizabeth Carpenter
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