Am 27.02.2013 00:21, schrieb Adam Hamsik:
Hi,
On Feb,Tuesday 26 2013, at 4:07 PM, tech mailinglists
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all,
I hope this is the right place to ask this question but I think here I will get
the most reliable answer.
Is the NetBSD implementation of LVM compatible with the Linux implementation of
LVM?
yes it is. Both are fully compatible.
I read a little bit about the NetBSD LVM implementation and found out that the
implementation in the kernel is written completly new and that the userland
tools are ported from the Linux code. But I found no information whether the
NetBSD LVM implementation is compatible to the Linux one.
See above.
The situation is as follows: I have a few servers where I am using Xen. The
disks I have are actually LVM based and I wan't to switch to NetBSD. This would
be no problem but there are two things which would be intereseting: Can I still
use my already created LVMs so the PVs, VGs and LVs in NetBSD? The second thing
would be they only have a Linux and FreeBSD livesystem for rescue reasons. So
would I be able to access the LVM volumes from within the Linux livesystem when
it is needed?
You should be able to manipulate with LVM structures without any problems. But
you will not be able to mount filesystem on them (at least on linux LVs). but
you will be able to access them from Linux VM.
Hope that someone can give me an answer to these questions.
Best Regards
P.S. Sorry for my bad english and the wrong post mode.
Thanks
Adam
Hello Adam,
first I want to thank you for your reply. That all sounds very good to
me. With the mount problem you mean that I can not use every linux
filesystem on NetBSD? So I could use ext2 on NetBSD but other
filesystems like ext3 or ext4 I can just use within the VM and from the
livesystem am I right?
A second thing I thought about was the problem of an encryption system
which works on NetBSD an Linux. I found a more or less official (I can't
say whether its official) pkgsrc package of Truecrypt on pkgsrc.se. And
I read that tcplay is compatible to Truecrypt but I don't know if there
is a tcplay version for NetBSD.
Is there a crypto system which can be used from Linux and NetBSD? So
that I can encrypt the physical device in the LVM structure? The other
way I think would to be to use the functionallity of the guest operating
system within the Xen DomU.
Best Regards
