Last weekend I imported gvinum into HEAD, and I hope many users (and old users) of gvinum will try it out, as it have some nice improvements. Moving it into HEAD now, means it also will become part of 8.0-RELEASE which is coming later this year, and since it is a lot of changes, the intention is to have it in HEAD now for a while before the release process begins. Among the most interesting updates for users are:

• Support more of the old vinum command set
• Less panics
• Rebuilding and synchronizing plexes can be done while mounted.
• Support for growing striped or raid5 plexes while mounted, meaning that you can just add a new disk to your gvinum configuration, and grow it to cover the new disk.