From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 27 01:29:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8560816A783 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:29:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E516C443CB for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:08:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D44F39B48B; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:38:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:38:36 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Sven Willenberger , freebsd-stable Message-ID: <20060627010836.GH10845@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1151338928.2186.4.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20060626171536.GA16235@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rCwQ2Y43eQY6RBgR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060626171536.GA16235@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Subject: Re: vinum to gvinum help X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:29:46 -0000 --rCwQ2Y43eQY6RBgR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 26 June 2006 at 19:15:36 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: >> I have an i386 system currently running 5.2.1-RELEASE with a vinum >> mirror array (2 drives comprising /usr ). I want to upgrade this to >> 5.5-RELEASE which, if I understand correctly, no longer supports vinum >> arrays. Would simply chaning /boot/loader.conf to read gvinum_load >> instead of vinum_load work or would the geom layer prevent this from >> working properly? If not, is there a recommended way of upgrading a >> vinum array to a gvinum or gmirror array? > > Lost of things have changed between 5.2.1 and 5.5. I think it would be > best to make a backup and do a clean reinstall. To the best of my knowledge, the Vinum on-disk layout has not changed, so you shouldn't need to reinstall the data. A backup is always an excellent idea, of course :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --rCwQ2Y43eQY6RBgR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEoIUUIubykFB6QiMRAq97AJ9DzNHaoigFwPI+olHE+3s0P2yfBgCZASaf iKb+wax1nRcATZAHwNIOMlo= =QqhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rCwQ2Y43eQY6RBgR--