Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:12:18 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum problems in 5.3-BETA7? Message-ID: <30988.69.53.57.66.1097251938.squirrel@69.53.57.66> In-Reply-To: <200410081534.i98FYhiF031897@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <24639.69.53.57.66.1097248169.squirrel@69.53.57.66> <200410081534.i98FYhiF031897@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hi, Jon! > >>> Since geom_vinum wasn't in the earlier betas I expected it was >>> scheduled for after 5.3-RELEASE. I'm puzzled by the amount of >>> feature changes during the current beta process. Bind 9 is >>> another example. Shouldn't there be a feature freeze at the >>> first beta and only bug fixing until release? >> >> geom_vinum was added way back in June >> (http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/14-06-04.html#geom-supporting-vinum-added). >> Recently, it was reworked to fix some corruption issues and improve >> performance > > Ah - so I got that wrong, sorry. > I checked if it was vailable in the 5.3-BETAs by typing > > $ man geom_vinum > $ man gvinum > > Well, I thought it wasn't in the system since there was no man page. > There still isn't one in 5.3-BETA7 or did I get my installworld wrong? I don't see one here either, so it looks like we were both right ;-). It is intended to be a clone of vinum using geom, so I guess the vinum man page is still mostly applicable. I believe there are still a few features in vinum that haven't made it into geom_vinum, though. Jon
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