FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

Nikolaj Hansen nikolaj.hansen at barnabas.dk
Tue Dec 21 10:00:57 PST 2004


On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:35:23PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
> Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2004 00:04 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen:
> This disk setup seems to me perfectly legal. Your vinum-partition has an 
> offset of 1740535 which is != 0, that's all that I meant.
> 
OK, Thats a relief. I also could not find anything immediately wrong with
the partitioning.
> 
> I don't know any hints any more, sorry. I send a pointer to 
> le at freebsd.org, which is the creator of geom_vinum, because he follows 
> -current and not -stable AFAIK.
> 

I think the creation of geom_vinum.ko kernel object with the new features
is a very good idea.

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?

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With regards / med venlig hilsen

Nikolaj Hansen
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arses." - Montaigne



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