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From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>
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Subject: gvinum status?
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Folks,

Not sure which mailing list to send this to, so I'll try here.

Back in the day, vinum was a big deal. It's been replaced by
gvinum(8). And gvinum is the only in-base way to do OS-based RAID5.

But I don't hear much about it.

Is gvinum discouraged or slated for deprecation? Or is it merely less
popular now that everyone's jumped on the ZFS train?

Thanks,
==ml

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