Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:01:55 -0500 From: Robin Smith <rasmith@aristotle.tamu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vinum migration 4.x-5.4 Message-ID: <200508191601.j7JG1uTf090350@aristotle.tamu.edu>
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There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum is completely broken on 5.4 and that gvinum/geom_vinum is not ready for production use. As it seems to me, this means that anyone using 4.11 (say) and vinum will have to abandon vinum (i.e. quit doing software RAID) in order to upgrade to 5.4. That can be both laborious and slow (e.g. if you have /usr on, say, a four-drive vinum volume in 4.11, you're going to have to replace those drives with something else in order to go to 5.4. Is that false, and is there a relatively simple way to get geom_vinum in 5.4 to read a vinum configuration produced under 4.11 and start the vinum volume as it is? Robin Smith
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