Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:53:57 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Bishop <tim-lists@bishnet.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the status of vinum? Message-ID: <20040816122357.GT30875@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1092649820.821.2.camel@inferno.sixth.bishnet.net> References: <001d01c48372$a4b5e130$142a15ac@spud> <1092649820.821.2.camel@inferno.sixth.bishnet.net>
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--jWL1oGPK2mPq0rME Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 10:50:20 +0100, Tim Bishop wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 10:23, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> I'm currently doing a vinum RAID 1 on a box that runs RELENG_4_8. For >> what I do, at least, RELENG_5_2 "feels worthy" of a production box and >> I'd really like to take advantage of some features 4.x doesn't have. >> The threads on vinum/gvinum have me wondering if I should hold off a >> bit. What's the current condition of gvinum? How well does >> vinum/gvinum work in RELENG_5_2? What are the features not yet >> implemented in gvinum? My eyeballs didn't capture any URLs for a status >> page, but if someone can point me at one, that would be great. > > I'm currently using RELENG_5_2 with vinum (not gvinum). It's > mirroring everything except swap, which I vaguely recall might not > have worked. Correct. Swap on Vinum does not work on 5.x: the swap code insists on GEOM. > I believe with -CURRENT that vinum might not work right, and gvinum > might be the only option. Then again I could be wrong :-) Yes, you're (still) wrong. They're both currently in the tree, and different parts of each work. > When 5.2 is released gvinum should be the default, and should > hopefully be in a finished state. For very large values of 2. 5.3 won't have a complete gvinum; hopefully 5.4 will only have gvinum, which will then be renamed vinum. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --jWL1oGPK2mPq0rME Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBIKddIubykFB6QiMRAvX8AJ0eBJtTsTP7xeAPBxdfh1/J+rK7+wCdF7D/ dvAT1li2ABV2okhTrwHLWw0= =qTWp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jWL1oGPK2mPq0rME--
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