Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:52:05 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yonas@fizk.net, mexas@bris.ac.uk Subject: Re: Depreciate and remove gbde Message-ID: <5624af35.U4iOAx58HCM0SE69%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <201510190611.t9J6BlEi066379@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201510190611.t9J6BlEi066379@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
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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].
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