Hi Cyril, Cyril Plisko pÃÅ¡e v so 01. 12. 2007 v 12:09 +0200: > I'd like to propose a project that will investigate support for Device > Mapper facility [0], > similar (or even compatible) to Linux device-mapper facility[1]. > > While OpenSolaris comes with state of the art native storage features and > capabilities it lacks interoperability with technologies used in other systems > like Linux. For example Linux LVM2 framework[2] is very popular disk > management > facility used by default by numerous Linux distributions. LVM2 uses > device-mapper[1] > as a kernel low-level engine and has a set user-land utilities to > manage its entities. > > LVM2 interoperability can be very nice supplement to the ext[23] file system > support project suggested recently to this community. > > Generic device mapper facility in Solaris will create a foundation for > providing > other layers both for interoperability purposes (LVM2, etc) and other Solaris > native uses (think lofi being just a wrapper around device mapper for > example). > > Initial project team: Cyril Plisko >
Do we have developer's documentation for it, to avoid looking at Linux source code? As the second, could be SVM enhanced to support LVM? Best regards, Milan
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