Re: What's the status of vinum?

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 00:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 August 2004 at 20:54:33 +0100, Tim Bishop wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:23, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >> On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 10:50:20 +0100, Tim Bishop wrote:
> >>> I'm currently using RELENG_5_2 with vinum (not gvinum). It's
> >>> mirroring everything except swap, which I vaguely recall might not
> >>> have worked.
> >>
> >> Correct.  Swap on Vinum does not work on 5.x: the swap code insists on
> >> GEOM.
> >
> > It worked on earlier 5.x, though.
> 
> Very early 5.x, sure.  That goes back a long way.  I still have this
> machine running:
> 
>   FreeBSD brewer.lemis.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Dec 12 18:45:30 CST 2000     grog_at_monorchid.lemis.com:/src/FreeBSD/5.0-CURRENT/src/sys/compile/MONORCHID  i386

I'm talking releases of 5.x - I've not tracked -CURRENT really.
Specifically, 5.1.

> > I'm hesitant to upgrade because it appears that the system is moving
> > from under vinum's feet, and gvinum isn't there yet. What are people
> > who are currently using vinum on earlier 5.x's going to do until
> > gvinum is finished?
> 
> I suppose now is a good time to remind you that -CURRENT is constantly
> changing.  If you want stability, you shouldn't be using it.  I'd
> suggest that you stay where you are until gvinum is finished.

When 5.3 is released we're in the process of heading towards -STABLE,
which I'd hoped would have a working gvinum (or vinum) implementation.
It looks like this won't happen.

I drew the balance between stability and trying out new stuff. I didn't
track -CURRENT, I used the releases along that line to familiarise
myself with 5.x.

Cheers,
Tim.

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