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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:49:53 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC, RFT] LDM support (aka Windows Dynamic Volumes)
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2012/3/11 Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@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

>
> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov



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