Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:09:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7? Message-ID: <24639.69.53.57.66.1097248169.squirrel@69.53.57.66> In-Reply-To: <200410081235.i98CZjRf026337@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20041008142844.D76783@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <200410081235.i98CZjRf026337@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hi, Lukas! > >>> Where do I go from here? Is this expected behaviour due to the ongoing >>> GEOM changes or should I go read Greg's "how to debug vinum problems" >>> document? I will do that, no problem. Just want to know if it makes >>> sense at all, because now everyone might tell me "vinum is known >>> broken in 5.3" or similar. >> >> Please switch to geom_vinum. Put 'geom_vinum_load="YES"' in your >> loader.conf and change your fstab to /dev/gvinum. > > Since geom_vinum wasn't in the earlier betas I expected it was > scheduled for after 5.3-RELEASE. I'm puzzled by the amount of > feature changes during the current beta process. Bind 9 is > another example. Shouldn't there be a feature freeze at the > first beta and only bug fixing until release? geom_vinum was added way back in June (http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/14-06-04.html#geom-supporting-vinum-added). Recently, it was reworked to fix some corruption issues and improve performance (http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/20-09-04.html#rework-of-geom-vinum-code). Regardless, it's certainly been available in earlier betas and this is not a good example of a feature change during beta. Such changes have been made, but all have been to satisfy the release requirements and desires laid out on the TODO page (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html). Bind 9 has been in used from ports for a long time now and as such is a very low risk change. The move to the rc (release candidate) stage should bring with it a feature freeze as you expect. Jon
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