[RFC, RFT] LDM support (aka Windows Dynamic Volumes)

[Adrian Chadd]

2012/3/11 Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru>:
> On 11.03.2012 23:31, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> This is awesome!
>>
>> Is it just read-only, or does it allow creation/destruction of LDM volumes?
>
> It is read-only, but you can partially destroy LDM metadata on given disk.
> LDM keeps information about all volumes on each disk, and i guess windows
> can recover destroyed metadata. It is targeted to get access to some windows
> partitions. Actually, it is possible make better LDM support in conjunction
> with GEOM_RAID, but i think we don't need it :)

Hah, I wouldn't say no to being able to modify (correctly) LDM metadat.a

i'd also love to see say, read/write Linux LVM support, but that's just me.

GEOM people: any chance of getting a review of this?


Adrian

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