From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 17:51:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E6516A4DD for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE81343D55 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:51:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff.rollin@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so311647wxd for ; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:51:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=FhmUVCUxy1bU32EBwgi8NweRxdG0ZZW1jRSPfq3KUb2Ilrj9J0CpdbkXSAtSj0xKPPVo0k80E8ngKCOYSCulKrYy6pqBrrWtsz0ZEhRA6KEP8+c2SXCDRbPrNX35QJZQN37ZzL7w1tZr19XSBpbpP4rH9ayjHlDxNOH5rlPJIes= Received: by 10.90.66.9 with SMTP id o9mr393360aga; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.98.12 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8a0028260609071051j288526dav49d4b36ba16c12ba@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:51:17 +0100 From: "Jeff Rollin" To: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60609071017w1695f499p4d580aefc0a5b29b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <226ae0c60609071017w1695f499p4d580aefc0a5b29b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: LVM support in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:51:19 -0000 On 07/09/06, David Robillard wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but > > preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try > FreeBSD on > > a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM. > > > > Is it possible? > > I really have no idea if it works, but have you tried to export your > LVM volume via NFS and then mount it on your FreeBSD machine? All what > FreeBSD will see is an NFS volume which we all know work very well. > > Just an idea, > > David > -- Yeah, I'm sure that would work - I already export most of my data via NFS anyway - except that the machine I was going to try it on is the one with the LVM data, thus I can't export it as NFS from Linux whilst FreeBSD is running on the bare hardware (or can I?). Thanks anyway. (FYI, the other machine I *could* try it on is a laptop; I actually did intend to use FreeBSD as the primary OS on it at one point, but had zero luck with either of the wifi cards (one internal, one cardbus - the cardbus one is there because the internal one also refuses to work in Linux) in it. A laptop with no network access isn't much good to me! :-( ) Jeff Rollin -- Proud Linux user since 1998