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On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 11:02, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Just did it on one machine and, yes, it worked.
> That's not a statistically relevant base, though - YMMV ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Patrick M. Hausen
> Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit
> 
> P.S. Mirror plexes only on my system.

I am using Beta7 with a preexisting RAID5 vinum volume.  I have put it
through some moderately heavy I/O without error, corruption or other
nastiness.

Regards,
Stephen Spencer