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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:04:28 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?
Message-ID:  <20041106233428.GN24507@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <41856FAC.2020808@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
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On Monday,  1 November 2004 at 10:05:16 +1100, Carl Makin wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 25 October 2004 at 14:21:33 -0600, secmgr wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea.  Lukas is
>> (understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly
>> there, I'm not going to do any further work on Vinum in FreeBSD 5.
>> Given the problems, I'd suggest that we yank it.
>
> Do you want to yank it in 5 or 6-CURRENT?

Well, it's been yanked in -CURRENT.  My understanding was that it
should also be yanked in 5.x: a number of changes have been made that
effectively break old Vinum,

> There are a *lot* of people using vinum and yanking it in 5-STABLE
> would force us all to use the 5.3 security branch until gvinum
> caught up.

Yes, I'm afraid so.  I can think of better ways that this could have
been managed, but I haven't had much influence.

Greg
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