From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 11:30:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB5416A400 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@oak-wood.co.uk) Received: from ash.oak-wood.co.uk (ash.oak-wood.co.uk [62.3.200.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170EE43D46 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@oak-wood.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ash.oak-wood.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BBBA6C3F for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ash.oak-wood.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ash.oak-wood.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22444-04-15 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by ash.oak-wood.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 80) id 68C54A6C29; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from host213-106-252-209.no-dns-yet.ntli.net (host213-106-252-209.no-dns-yet.ntli.net [213.106.252.209]) by imp.oak-wood.co.uk (Horde) with HTTP for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:09 +0000 Message-ID: <20060413113009.du25k9z3wg84o0og@imp.oak-wood.co.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:09 +0000 From: Chris Hastie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060413102506.L88998@erika.hostname.nu> In-Reply-To: <20060413102506.L88998@erika.hostname.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.1) Subject: Re: Vinum and upgrading from 5.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:11 -0000 On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Emil Thelin wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chris Hastie wrote: > >> I tried to upgrade from 5.1-RELEASE to 5_RELENG last night and hit big >> problems with vinum. 5_RELENG in retrospect was an error I suspect, as >> what I really wanted was 5.4-RELEASE. > > Since 5.3 you should probably use the geom-aware gvinum instead of vinum. > > I think the manual says that both vinum and gvinum can be used for > 5.3 > but I've never actually got vinum to work on > 5.3. Any hints as to how I make this migration? Is it as simple as putting geom_vinum_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, or is there further configuration to do? Is gvinum happy with the same configuration data as vinum? Presumably device names are different so I'll have to change /etc/fstab accordingly? -- Chris Hastie