Vinum is a Logical Volume Manager that was introduced in FreeBSD 3.0, and for FreeBSD 5 was ported to geom(4) as gvinum. gvinum has had no specific development at least as far back as 2010, and has a number of known bugs which are unlikely to be resolved. We plan to mark it deprecated in FreeBSD 13, and remove it in FreeBSD 14, if it does not attract a maintainer.
Review for deprecation notice in man page: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29424 Review for printing deprecation notice upon tasting: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38607
Mailing list thread: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-March/093358.html
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) * | |
| stripe | gstripe(8) |
| graid(8) * | |
| ZFS(8) | |
| mirror | gmirror(8) |
| graid(8) * | |
| ZFS(8) | |
| raid5 | ZFS(8) |
* graid(8) may require BIOS support