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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:35:24 +0400
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [RFC, RFT] LDM support (aka Windows Dynamic Volumes)
Message-ID:  <4F5C71DC.3010203@yandex.ru>

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Hi, All

i wrote GEOM_PART_LDM class. It provides basic support of Logical Disk Ma=
nager
partitioning scheme [1]. Since LDM metadata is not documented i used seve=
ral
articles found in the web and linux implementation as reference [2].
Only generic volumes is supported. Spanned, striped and raid5
configurations aren't implemented. Mirrored volumes also are not shown by=
 default,
but they can be accessed when kern.geom.part.ldm.show_mirrors=3D1 (by you=
r own risk).

Currently only LDM on top of MBR is supported. Also only "gpart destroy" =
is allowed
with LDM scheme.

you can compile class without patching, the source code is here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/LDM/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Disk_Manager
[2] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/fs/partitions/?v=3Dlinux-2.6

Example:
/* da1 and da2 disks without geom_part_ldm module */
# gpart show da1 da2
=3D>       63  104857537  da1  MBR  (50G)
         63       1985    1  ms-ldm-data  (992k)
       2048     204800    2  ms-ldm-data  [active]  (100M)
     206848  104648704    3  ms-ldm-data  (49G)
  104855552       2048       - free -  (1.0M)

=3D>     32  2097120  da2  MBR  (1.0G)
       32       31       - free -  (15k)
       63  2095041    1  ms-ldm-data  (1G)
  2095104     2048       - free -  (1.0M)

# kldload ./geom_part_ldm.ko
# gpart show da1 da2
=3D>       63  104855489  da1  LDM  (50G)
         63       1985       - free -  (992k)
       2048     204800    1  ntfs  (100M)
     206848  104648704    2  ntfs  (49G)

=3D>     63  2095041  da2  LDM  (1.0G)
       63       65       - free -  (32k)
      128  1024000    1  ntfs  (500M)
  1024128  1067008    2  ntfs  (521M)
  2091136     3968       - free -  (2M)

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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