Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:57:48 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> Cc: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yonas@fizk.net, mexas@bris.ac.uk Subject: Re: Depreciate and remove gbde Message-ID: <201510192058.t9JKvmBL045599@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:17:26 %2B0300." <20151019091726.GG42243@zxy.spb.ru>
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Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > 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. Yes. Someone with a commit bit could hopefully add a line or 2 to man gbde, that as gbde was around in 5.0-RELEASE 2003, gbde is No Longer experimental, it's stable & in use; newbies need not be scared. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html which was released pre 2006 https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported.html Jan 16 2003 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/5.0.0/README?view=markup Jan 16 16:56:23 2003 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/5.0.0/sbin/gbde/gbde.8?revision=109388&view=markup Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys. Eng. Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Reply After previous text to preserve context, as in a play script. Indent previous text with > Insert new lines before 80 chars. Use plain text, Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base64, Not MS.doc.
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