Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-26 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Eitan Adler wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Warren Block wrote: Moving it to an article should cover all the bases. It won't be first-line information in the Handbook, but can still be found. And eventually, if not already, we can have an archive section for obso

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-26 Thread Eitan Adler
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Warren Block wrote: > Moving it to an article should cover all the bases. It won't be first-line > information in the Handbook, but can still be found. And eventually, if not > already, we can have an archive section for obsolete information that may > still be u

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-25 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Warren Block wrote: Next on the list of potentially outdated things in the Handbook: "The vinum Volume Manager", a whole chapter on vinum.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 shoul

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Warren Block wrote: Next on the list of potentially outdated things in the Handbook: "The vinum Volume Manager", a whole chapter on vinum.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 o

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-25 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote: Couldn't agree more! In fact the whole disk mirroring thing still confuses me, as there are too many options and no guide for choosing between them. As far as I understand it, gmirror is the way to go in most cases because you end up with two identic

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-25 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 25/06/2013 18:47, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 25/06/2013 16:43, Warren Block wrote: Next on the list of potentially outdated things in the Handbook: "The vinum Volume Manager", a whole chapter on vinum.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

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-25 Thread Warren Block
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

Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"

2013-06-25 Thread Frank Leonhardt
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