On 7/30/07, kelsey hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > On a Solaris_86 system would there be a way to mount and read a disk
> > drive that is partitioned with Linux LVM? I have no useful guidance
> > from Google searches.
>
> Without doing any searching around, I'm guessing the answer to this
> question is, "probably not," or, "not without a tremendous amount of pain."
>
> Solaris is all about compatibility with itself, but it seems to be a
> little behind the times as far as interoperability is concerned. Then
> again, I wouldn't imagine something like the Linux LVM being something
> that would easily be adopted into Solaris, just based on complexity
> concerns. But, since this is all speculation, i could be completely
> wrong. :)
>
> Good luck. If you find anything out, please post your results as I'd be
> interested in how to do this as well!
>
If there is any hope, it might come from the CPAN "Linux-LVM" Perl
extensions, which allow anyone with Perl to read the structure of LVM.
But not the data, as best I can tell. The most recent (April 2003)
version worked with Solaris 2.8.
carl
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