From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 20:12:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606E416A4CF for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:12:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imap.univie.ac.at (mail.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C7143D41 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:12:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from korben.prv.univie.ac.at (korben.prv.univie.ac.at [131.130.7.98]) by imap.univie.ac.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9CKClU6195534; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:12:48 +0200 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:12:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl To: David Gilbert In-Reply-To: <16747.64733.417014.558225@canoe.dclg.ca> Message-ID: <20041012221104.A572@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> References: <16747.64733.417014.558225@canoe.dclg.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: mx9.univie.ac.at 4247; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Geom Vinum backwards compatible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:12:59 -0000 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, David Gilbert wrote: > Is it even expected that if I upgrade a machine with vinum drives from > old vinum (~5.2-current) to geom vinum (5.3-BETAx) that geom vinum > will recognise and use the old vinum partitions? It should work fine. There are some corner cases that are not supported right now. For example, you should have only one vinum drive per disk. cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/