From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 07:49:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CA7106566B; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:49:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328A58FC0A; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dald2 with SMTP id d2so5341311dal.13 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:49:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Tj6m0ht7deYOWII6g7HnCB7kmN5Iinsr41qF5J8cgC4=; b=ArG7mLO+GdLWF8HuV4VrHjSGH4Yc2nP+DkQDyj7RGmEVCKZo56FGRt7RaIq/slhH0e oZHBB7bZjPmPsmmOFoODQbTnfLxJRKyqAofiS8v9aou7Ze/z5uRoXeBFuw3Y7pdZsk4b aWejTNA3PGrd6LTyBQSLH3crTFhj8gdNr+iaEMnH+p7X/mabIEsIPfeoiIA6UBJn3Hd8 B5kOVpuRBZFb8mxZ3pzmGktZU3Kb/ltd2RSHUXKqSbrAqeXOiDiaEXipLwscsoti25g9 vWFPavvyPic7pKyrjDTpkFNmk+yBPXCj0SJ0hZIOadpzessNA/djgRCiVC/rwvn5KlZw dgPw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.232.2 with SMTP id tk2mr339206pbc.68.1331538593952; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.143.33.5 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:49:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F5D78D7.5030003@yandex.ru> References: <4F5C71DC.3010203@yandex.ru> <4F5D78D7.5030003@yandex.ru> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:49:53 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cDfbcKgO0_-AQBhx23p3N_ibf7g Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC, RFT] LDM support (aka Windows Dynamic Volumes) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:49:54 -0000 2012/3/11 Andrey V. Elsukov : > 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