From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 25 17:20:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F76AD98 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:20:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from bs1.fjl.org.uk (bs1.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3334B192B for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.37] (mux.fjl.org.uk [62.3.120.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by bs1.fjl.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5PH2ok3068932 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:02:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Message-ID: <51C9CD3B.4090001@fjl.co.uk> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:02:51 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt Organization: Frank Leonhardt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank2@fjl.co.uk List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:20:09 -0000 I remember reading this and the gmirror stuff at the same time and wondering what it was all about. Whilst I'm generally not in favour of chucking stuff out of a manual if it exists on the ground, at the very least this could do with a sanity warning. At the time I had no way of knowing whether one method or the other was deprecated. I suppose I made a lucky guess. On 25/06/2013 16:43, Warren Block wrote: > Next on the list of potentially outdated things in the Handbook: "The > vinum Volume Manager", a whole chapter on vinum. Actually, it is > really now about gvinum. > > Are there any situations where new users should be advised to use > gvinum rather than ZFS or gconcat/gstripe/gmirror? > > What reasons are there for this chapter to remain in the Handbook > given the newer, simpler alternatives? > > If the information should remain, why should it be separate from the > GEOM chapter? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"