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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: [RFC, RFT] LDM support (aka Windows Dynamic Volumes)
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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 :)

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov