On Monday, 26 June 2006 at 19:15:36 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: >> I have an i386 system currently running 5.2.1-RELEASE with a vinum >> mirror array (2 drives comprising /usr ). I want to upgrade this to >> 5.5-RELEASE which, if I understand correctly, no longer supports vinum >> arrays. Would simply chaning /boot/loader.conf to read gvinum_load >> instead of vinum_load work or would the geom layer prevent this from >> working properly? If not, is there a recommended way of upgrading a >> vinum array to a gvinum or gmirror array? > > Lost of things have changed between 5.2.1 and 5.5. I think it would be > best to make a backup and do a clean reinstall.
To the best of my knowledge, the Vinum on-disk layout has not changed, so you shouldn't need to reinstall the data. A backup is always an excellent idea, of course :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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