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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Andreas Braukmann wrote:

> On 01/11/04 12:13:36 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> > In message <20040111120824.00cb6314@Magellan.Leidinger.net>,
> > Alexander Leidinger writes:
> >
> >> fine, but if I got it right, do you (Greg) agree to remove it from
> >> -current?
> >
> > My proposal is to do just that with both vinum and raidframe until
> > one or possibly both are up to full strength again.
>
> and I'm pretty sure, that you'll provide means to migrate
> the vinum volumes on -current systems transparently and
> in-place to regular partitions?
>
> vinum (IMHO) is a quite valuable piece of software. I'm
> using it quite intensively; *especially* on -current-boxes
> I'm in need of most flexible storage management.
>

oh yes - and please fix disklabel to support an arbirtary number of file
system per a "disk" or "slice" in the process, because otherwise it will
not be converting many setups.

>
> -Andreas
>