OK, if I have to I will develop a modified kernel to be able to extend Darwin with support for LVM. What languages can I develop LVM support for Darwin in?
On Mar 21, 9:17 pm, Erik Larsson <[email protected]> wrote: > You could write a FUSE file system that reads LVM volumes and presents > them as regular files... but when it comes to showing the volumes as > native devices so that all sorts of device operations can be performed > on them (including getting sector size) you don't have any option but to > write kernel code AFAIK. > With the "devices as regular files" solution you would have zero > possibility of integrating it with OS X's utilites, but I think most > file system drivers are able to mount regular files too (raw disk > images). So you would probably be able to mount these "virtual disk images". > It's not the "right" solution though. (Although I have no idea whether > any kernel interfaces exist to extend OS X with support for additional > second level partition schemes like LVM, ZVOL, VxVM...) > > - Erik > > > > LynuxDevil wrote: > > How hard would it be to make a driver to access Linux Volume > > Management logical volumes? What I want is a FUSE filesystem that > > creates virtual device nodes named like your logical volumes, and > > directories that are named like the names of your volume groups. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
