On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:00 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: > I also do not think it belongs in the stable branch just yet :-D Any hope > of you fixing the old vinum in the 5.3 branch or is it a wait for the 5.4?
AFAIK, the old vinum will *never* be "fixed" in the 5.3 branch or any subsequent branch, so don't hold your breath for 5.4. The fact that it wasn't being fully GEOM-ified (and hence was dying from neglect in 5.x) was the whole reason for Lukas to embark on geom_vinum. Geom_vinum *is* vinum for all intents and purposes, from this point on. The alternative to not having geom_vinum in the stable branch would be not to have vinum support at all. Cheers, Paul. PS: If you're unhappy with geom_vinum stability and performance, and you're using it mainly to do software RAID 1 (as opposed to using it for its LVM features), you might consider using geom_mirror instead. I converted one of my root-on-geom_vinum mirrored systems over to a bootable geom_mirror. (I did it in-place, too.) Right now, geom_mirror will load-balance reads across disks, whereas geom_vinum does not, which is something in geom_mirror's favour. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"