From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 07:11:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE3B16A4CE; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:11:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB9543D3F; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:11:10 +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 4859C8577C; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:40:55 +0930 (CST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A5EC74AC9B; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:48:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:48:39 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Lukas Ertl Message-ID: <20041013084839.GC692@eucla.lemis.com> References: <16747.64733.417014.558225@canoe.dclg.ca> <20041012221104.A572@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041012221104.A572@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> 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-current@FreeBSD.org cc: David Gilbert Subject: Re: Geom Vinum backwards compatible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:11:11 -0000 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