Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:23:03 +0100 From: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@stud.ntnu.no> To: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating a server with Vinum Message-ID: <20061206102300.GA17808@stud.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <0dbf01c71782$a57cdf00$79001cac@EKGLAPTOPCC> References: <0dbf01c71782$a57cdf00$79001cac@EKGLAPTOPCC>
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On man, des 04, 2006 at 04:00:28 -0500, Eric Germann wrote: > I've got an old server I'm looking to slap -CURRENT on. It has a RAID5 > Vinum array and is running 4.3R (yes I know, really old ...) > > My question is this: If I bring it up into the 6.x train of either -STABLE > or -CURRENT, will the new vinum drivers recognize the old config written to > the drives? Of course backup is important, but just curious how it would > handle this. It would be nice not to have to recreate it and restore it. > Gvinum uses the same parts and the same format on the configuration as vinum and should be fully backwards-compatible. If not, that is a bug in gvinum. A difference will be that the volumes are in /dev/gvinum and not in /dev/vinum as before. Other than that, gvinum in RELENG_6 is decent from my experience. As you said, just take backup :) -- Ulf Lilleengen
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