From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 09:16:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F4916A4CE; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:16:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6271843D3F; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:16:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971B2855E1; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:46:02 +1030 (CST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 509124AC41; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:15:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:15:50 +0100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: secmgr Message-ID: <20041031091550.GB2693@eucla.lemis.com> References: <02f201c4ba91$f9f95db0$33017f80@psique> <1098725440.5103.4.camel@sp4.cs.ucdavis.edu> <417D604D.4090800@jim-liesl.org> <20041028153756.GB1195@eucla.lemis.com> <4182A618.5090406@jim-liesl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4182A618.5090406@jim-liesl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team Subject: Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:16:10 -0000 On Friday, 29 October 2004 at 14:20:40 -0600, secmgr wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> A bit of background: we know that 'gvinum' will replace Vinum; the >> original intention had been to do it seamlessly, but for various >> reasons that did happen. Then we decided that we should leave them >> both in the tree until gvinum had the full functionality of Vinum. >> It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea. Lukas is >> (understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly >> there, I'm not going to do any further work on Vinum in FreeBSD 5. >> Given the problems, I'd suggest that we yank it. I'm copying the >> release engineering team. Re, what do you think? > > Not that I've got a lot of say in the matter, but I would vote for this > too. (along with migration info in the release notes). I've spoken to Scott Long on the subject, and it looks likely that we'll do something like this; but re haven't made a final decision. > There are also some minor changes needed to the docs on vinumvm.org > for gvinum/newfs (5.3) to correct new paths and switches. So far, vinumvm.org has no information about gvinum at all. Hopefully that will change at some time. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers