Hi, I'm looking into adopting GuixSD, but I'm kind of a heavy LVM user. I'm also slightly concerned about support for BTRFS and LUKS, that I also rely heavily on.
My first concern is that it's not clear to me what's meant by lack of LVM support. I saw patches around April-May 2015, some later discussions, but not much that would give me much of a clue as to what's really missing, as in, is it just that the installer doesn't know how to create logical volumes, that the boot-up code doesn't support root on lvm, that lvm and device-mapper packages are missing altogether, or that device-mapper infrastructure is disabled in the kernel? Full-disk encryption (LUKS) is also a strict requirement for me, and so is multi-disk BTRFS. I'm willing and somewhat available to volunteer time and effort to contribute support for these, but I could use some mentoring in getting started and on track towards improving what needs to be improved in ways that are likely to be generally acceptable. I have not used GuixSD yet, to a large extent due to the stated lack of LVM support. I haven't got myself into Guix either *blush*, but maybe I could get started with it. I suppose VMs might be a way to get started, but... the machines I use are not very powerful, as in, laptops old enough as to support LibreBoot, so I haven't used virtualization much myself. Thanks in advance for any guidance. I'm lxo on IRC. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engineer Free Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás - Che GNUevara