1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Andrew Thompson 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.Dd October 1, 2013 27.Dt GEOM_LINUX_LVM 4 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm geom_linux_lvm 31.Nd "GEOM based Linux LVM logical volume mapping" 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33To compile this driver into the kernel, 34place the following line in your 35kernel configuration file: 36.Bd -ragged -offset indent 37.Cd "options GEOM_LINUX_LVM" 38.Ed 39.Pp 40Alternatively, to load the driver as a 41module at boot time, place the following line in 42.Xr loader.conf 5 : 43.Bd -literal -offset indent 44geom_linux_lvm_load="YES" 45.Ed 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm 49framework provides support for mapping Linux LVM volumes to GEOM providers. 50.Nm 51currently supports linear stripes with segments on one or more physical disks. 52The parser is able to read LVM2 Text Format metadata, the logical volumes will 53be assembled and made available under 54.Pa /dev/linux_lvm/ . 55The metadata is read-only, logical volumes cannot be allocated or resized. 56.Sh EXAMPLES 57To view which 58.Nm 59devices are available: 60.Bd -literal -offset indent 61# geom linux_lvm list 62Geom name: vg1 63Providers: 641. Name: linux_lvm/vg1-home 65 Mediasize: 4294967296 (4.0G) 66 Sectorsize: 512 67 Mode: r0w0e0 682. Name: linux_lvm/vg1-logs 69 Mediasize: 4294967296 (4.0G) 70 Sectorsize: 512 71 Mode: r0w0e0 72Consumers: 731. Name: ada0s1 74 Mediasize: 80023716864 (75G) 75 Sectorsize: 512 76 Mode: r0w0e0 77.Ed 78.Sh SEE ALSO 79.Xr GEOM 4 , 80.Xr geom 8 81.Sh AUTHORS 82.An -nosplit 83The 84.Nm 85driver was written by 86.An Andrew Thompson Aq Mt thompsa@FreeBSD.org . 87