Re: Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-09 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
On 8/8/23 05:17, Jay F. Shachter wrote: and I wonder, parenthetically, why FreeBSD and NetBSD are willing to support ZFS, but OpenBSD is not I think that is a question for the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams, why are they willing to spend the extra time in support, and face the potential legal risk

Re: Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2023-08-07, Jay F. Shachter wrote: > I was asking whether Linux logical volumes can be recognized > as disk devices by the OpenBSD kernel, in the way that they can be > recognized in NetBSD, and in FreeBSD. AFAIK, not without a bunch of work. I suppose it could be done by extending

Re: Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-08 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
For the several wished-for things here to happen, primarily somebody would need to write the code (or port existing code) to support those features. The reasons why this has not been done for each of those differ, but generally boil down to (in no particular order) * No developer has been

Re: Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
Greg Thomas wrote: > > storage (and I wonder, parenthetically, why FreeBSD and NetBSD are > > willing to support ZFS, but OpenBSD is not). Why continue to wonder? Why not just sit down and figure out that they surrendered their ideals? I make vegeterian meals all the time, with a big slab of

Re: Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-07 Thread Greg Thomas
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 12:20 PM Jay F. Shachter wrote: > > > > > As the primary author of OpenBSD's current fdisk/disklabel/etc. I > > was intrigued by your recent email to misc@ [I]f you want > > disklabel(8) to say "Linux LVM" for sd0l you would need at a minimum > > a patch to

Re: Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-07 Thread Evan Silberman
> On Aug 7, 2023, at 12:20 PM, Jay F. Shachter wrote: > > Can OpenBSD be made to see Linux logical volumes? As I’ve often said at work, anything is possible with computers!

Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-07 Thread Jay F. Shachter
> > As the primary author of OpenBSD's current fdisk/disklabel/etc. I > was intrigued by your recent email to misc@ [I]f you want > disklabel(8) to say "Linux LVM" for sd0l you would need at a minimum > a patch to /usr/src/sys/sys/disklabel.h to add an FS_LINUXLVM define > and the string