From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 23:46:24 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 4611616A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:46:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89C243D48 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:46:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BD92BD69 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:46:20 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9AA8F511FE; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:16:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:16:18 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Tim Bishop Message-ID: <20040825234618.GV9754@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <001d01c48372$a4b5e130$142a15ac@spud> <1092649820.821.2.camel@inferno.sixth.bishnet.net> <20040816122357.GT30875@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1093463672.41794.4.camel@inferno.sixth.bishnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vTKWYyFdYy4kKIJI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1093463672.41794.4.camel@inferno.sixth.bishnet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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: Darren Pilgrim cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the status of vinum? 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: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:46:24 -0000 --vTKWYyFdYy4kKIJI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 25 August 2004 at 20:54:33 +0100, Tim Bishop wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:23, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 10:50:20 +0100, Tim Bishop wrote: >>> I'm currently using RELENG_5_2 with vinum (not gvinum). It's >>> mirroring everything except swap, which I vaguely recall might not >>> have worked. >> >> Correct. Swap on Vinum does not work on 5.x: the swap code insists on >> GEOM. > > It worked on earlier 5.x, though. Very early 5.x, sure. That goes back a long way. I still have this machine running: FreeBSD brewer.lemis.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Dec 12 18:45:30 CST 2000 grog@monorchid.lemis.com:/src/FreeBSD/5.0-CURRENT/src/sys/compile/MONORCHID i386 >> For very large values of 2. 5.3 won't have a complete gvinum; >> hopefully 5.4 will only have gvinum, which will then be renamed vinum. > > Yes, I meant 5.3 :-) > > So what's state is (g)vinum likely to be in for 5.3? My current understanding is that it won't be. > I'm hesitant to upgrade because it appears that the system is moving > from under vinum's feet, and gvinum isn't there yet. What are people > who are currently using vinum on earlier 5.x's going to do until > gvinum is finished? I suppose now is a good time to remind you that -CURRENT is constantly changing. If you want stability, you shouldn't be using it. I'd suggest that you stay where you are until gvinum is finished. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --vTKWYyFdYy4kKIJI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBLSTKIubykFB6QiMRAvaoAJoDoZtcsghNpiamtmsz97nOpOYUggCfeRcp JFWYl80P9Hg0zblUVdmXK9E= =+Eh/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vTKWYyFdYy4kKIJI--