Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:17:26 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yonas@fizk.net, mexas@bris.ac.uk Subject: Re: Depreciate and remove gbde Message-ID: <20151019091726.GG42243@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <5624af35.U4iOAx58HCM0SE69%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <201510190611.t9J6BlEi066379@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> <5624af35.U4iOAx58HCM0SE69%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 01:52:05AM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote: > > > I use gbde. > > Can switch to geli, if required, > > but please provide detailed instructions > > for switching before removing gbde. > > Such instructions would presumably be included in the UPDATING > entry. > > An additional consideration: If there is no convert-in-place > mechanism -- i.e. the only way to convert a gbde FS to geli is to > backup, wipe, and restore (thus involving considerable downtime) > -- it will give some unknown number of production users a strong > motivation to freeze at [last version of FreeBSD to include gbde > support]. This must be show-stoper for removing gbde.
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