From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 11:49:11 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 3575E16A405 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:49:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emil@hostname.nu) Received: from erika.hostname.nu (hostname.nu [212.32.142.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52EB843D7B for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:49:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emil@hostname.nu) Received: by erika.hostname.nu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4564333D75; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:53:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by erika.hostname.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4489833D6F for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:53:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:53:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Emil Thelin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060413113009.du25k9z3wg84o0og@imp.oak-wood.co.uk> Message-ID: <20060413134856.V88998@erika.hostname.nu> References: <20060413102506.L88998@erika.hostname.nu> <20060413113009.du25k9z3wg84o0og@imp.oak-wood.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 11:49:11 -0000 On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chris Hastie wrote: > 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? I've never tried it so I'm not sure how to migrate from vinum to gvinum, check the handbook and ask google. But my gut feeling about it is that it will probably not be that easy, g(vinum) has a way of causing headaches.. /e -- http://blogg.hostname.nu || http://photoblog.hostname.nu