Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:48:39 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: Geom Vinum backwards compatible? Message-ID: <20041013084839.GC692@eucla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20041012221104.A572@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> References: <16747.64733.417014.558225@canoe.dclg.ca> <20041012221104.A572@korben.prv.univie.ac.at>
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On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 22:12:48 +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, David Gilbert wrote: > >> 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? > > It should work fine. There are some corner cases that are not supported > right now. For example, you should have only one vinum drive per disk. This is a good idea even for old Vinum, but it wasn't enforced. There are cases where more than one drive can be an advantage (usually when using up excess space). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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