Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:06:20 -0500 From: Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Migrating vinum to gvinum Message-ID: <1167257180.20401.10.camel@lanshark.dmv.com>
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I have a 5.2.1 box that I want to upgrade to 5.5-RELENG and in doing so need to upgrade/migrate the current vinum setup to gvinum. It is a simple vinum mirror (just 2 drives with one vinum slice each). Having done some googling on the matter I really haven't found a definitive "best approach" to doing this. The choices would be: 1) making buildworld and making kernel. Remove the vinum-specific entries in rc.conf and adding geom_vinum_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. Rebooting and [optionally] running gvinum saveconfig. or 2) clear the current vinum config (which would leave the data intact on each part of the mirror?). Making buildworld, making kernel, adding the loader.conf line. Then rebooting, installing world and rebuild the gvinum device by creating a mirror with one disk and then adding the second disk. Anyone have experience in this migration process? Alternatively has anyone converted a (g)vinum mirror into a gmirror setup? Thanks Sven
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