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

[Oliver Pinter]

On 3/12/12, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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?

In NetBSD this feature already exists:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-lvm.html

>
>
> Adrian
>
>>
>> --
>> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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