Re: Updating a server with Vinum

On man, des 04, 2006 at 04:00:28 -0500, Eric Germann wrote:
> I've got an old server I'm looking to slap -CURRENT on.  It has a RAID5
> Vinum array and is running 4.3R (yes I know, really old ...)
> 
> My question is this:  If I bring it up into the 6.x train of either -STABLE
> or -CURRENT, will the new vinum drivers recognize the old config written to
> the drives?  Of course backup is important, but just curious how it would
> handle this.  It would be nice not to have to recreate it and restore it.
> 

Gvinum uses the same parts and the same format on the configuration as vinum and
should be fully backwards-compatible. If not, that is a bug in gvinum. A
difference will be that the volumes are in /dev/gvinum and not in /dev/vinum as
before. Other than that, gvinum in RELENG_6 is decent from my experience.

As you said, just take backup :)

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Ulf Lilleengen