From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 21:57:36 2005 Return-Path: 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 0378C16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:57:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD7C43D58 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:57:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from localhost (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFA469A40 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:57:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:57:33 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050217165733.28e0c57e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0rc (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Thu__17_Feb_2005_16_57_33_-0500_MXhHFAbQZAd8ZNR=" Subject: What is the status of gvinum in FreeBSD 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:57:36 -0000 --Signature=_Thu__17_Feb_2005_16_57_33_-0500_MXhHFAbQZAd8ZNR= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was wondering about the status of gvinum in 5.3. I seem to remember that there were a lot of problems with gvinum in 5.3, but searching around, I can't seem to find anything that says for sure one way or the other. I'm just trying to seperate the FUD from the reality. Is there anywhere that has the status? Anyone using gvinum that can say how reliable it is or isn't? I understand that there are GEOM classes available that have some of the functionality of vinum that I could use instead, but there are two reasons that these aren't an option for me. 1) I'm wanting to migrate 4.X machines with existing vinum volumes to 5, and I'd rather not dump/restore. 2) There is at least one feature that vinum has that I don't see in any GEOM class, that I'm using. That is the ability to add subdisks and use growfs to enlarge filesystems without having to dump/restore. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com --Signature=_Thu__17_Feb_2005_16_57_33_-0500_MXhHFAbQZAd8ZNR= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFRNNYOm/CGAEZUARAhMsAKCLUBb3FBc7T83dL+CZ4XfQ8/EQZQCfebZm Vg6mzwDGgKkxzib0jLVzhJk= =qxMK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__17_Feb_2005_16_57_33_-0500_MXhHFAbQZAd8ZNR=--