Vinum was a Logical Volume Manager that was introduced in FreeBSD 3.0, and for FreeBSD 5 was ported to geom(4) as gvinum. gvinum had no specific development at least as far back as 2010, and had a number of known bugs which were unlikely to be resolved.
2021 discussion: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-March/093358.html
2023 Review for deprecation notice in man page: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29424
2023 review for printing deprecation notice upon tasting: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38607
January 2025 commits included:
Need to decide what to do with the vinum article - simply deleting it may be most appropriate
Suggested replacements for gvinum modes:
gvinum command |
suggested replacement |
concat |
gconcat(8) |
graid(8) * |
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stripe |
gstripe(8) |
graid(8) * |
|
ZFS(8) |
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mirror |
gmirror(8) |
graid(8) * |
|
ZFS(8) |
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raid5 |
ZFS(8) |
* graid(8) may require BIOS support