On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
On 25/06/2013 16:43, Warren Block wrote:
Next on the list of potentially outdated things in the Handbook: "The vinum
Volume Manager", a whole chapter on vinum. Actually, it is really now about
gvinum.
Are there any situations where new users should be advised to use gvinum
rather than ZFS or gconcat/gstripe/gmirror?
What reasons are there for this chapter to remain in the Handbook given the
newer, simpler alternatives?
If the information should remain, why should it be separate from the GEOM
chapter?
I remember reading this and the gmirror stuff at the same time and wondering
what it was all about. Whilst I'm generally not in favour of chucking stuff
out of a manual if it exists on the ground, at the very least this could do
with a sanity warning. At the time I had no way of knowing whether one method
or the other was deprecated. I suppose I made a lucky guess.
That is exactly the problem with old information. gvinum still works,
but there is little reason to recommend it over the newer solutions.
Rather than just removing this chapter, it could be converted to a
separate article, along with an added introduction about when it was
removed from the Handbook and why.
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