From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 18:07:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC0A37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3633E43FB1 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 20A3C526A4; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:36:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:36:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: James Quick Message-ID: <20030813010656.GQ23460@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rE45P3aZNSuYx5ND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about stability of snapshots and vinum in 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:07:08 -0000 --rE45P3aZNSuYx5ND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 20:49:05 -0400, James Quick wrote: > > I am seeking feedback on the status of vinum, and whether the > following plan makes sense as an upgrade plan for a host with a > light load but whose downtime windows are short. I am curious if my > planned use of snapshots is risky in 5.1, I have used them in under > a much older 5.0 version with no problems, but a lot has changed. As of right now, recent changes in -CURRENT have broken Vinum. I hope to have time to fix it in the next day or two. > I have not migrated my data onto the first of these drive since I > need to configure one, migrate from 2 old drives, then put in the > second new drive before continuing. I also need to do as much of > this work as possible without interruption. My plan is, to build > out the first set of partitions, Have you read the documentation on this subject? There are easier ways. I don't see that any of this is necessary. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. =20 For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --rE45P3aZNSuYx5ND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/OY8wIubykFB6QiMRAk/0AJ9cAZ5bYlJdYhzShVMsHc+ObicNSACfcRhT 6Jmh/o/XKFFRAK5j9k/cTmE= =sC1P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rE45P3aZNSuYx5ND--