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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:20:40 -0600
From:      secmgr <security@jim-liesl.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?
Message-ID:  <4182A618.5090406@jim-liesl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041028153756.GB1195@eucla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>A bit of background: we know that 'gvinum' will replace Vinum; the
>original intention had been to do it seamlessly, but for various
>reasons that did happen.  Then we decided that we should leave them
>both in the tree until gvinum had the full functionality of Vinum.
>It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea.  Lukas is
>(understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly
>there, I'm not going to do any further work on Vinum in FreeBSD 5.
>Given the problems, I'd suggest that we yank it.  I'm copying the
>release engineering team.  Re, what do you think?
>
>Greg
>  
>
Not that I've got a lot of say in the matter, but I would vote for this 
too. (along with migration info in the release notes).  There are also 
some minor changes needed to the docs on vinumvm.org for gvinum/newfs 
(5.3) to correct new paths and switches.

thanks
jim



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