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.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd October 1, 2013 29.Dt GEOM_LINUX_LVM 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm geom_linux_lvm 33.Nd "GEOM based Linux LVM logical volume mapping" 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile this driver into the kernel, 36place the following line in your 37kernel configuration file: 38.Bd -ragged -offset indent 39.Cd "options GEOM_LINUX_LVM" 40.Ed 41.Pp 42Alternatively, to load the driver as a 43module at boot time, place the following line in 44.Xr loader.conf 5 : 45.Bd -literal -offset indent 46geom_linux_lvm_load="YES" 47.Ed 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm 51framework provides support for mapping Linux LVM volumes to GEOM providers. 52.Nm 53currently supports linear stripes with segments on one or more physical disks. 54The parser is able to read LVM2 Text Format metadata, the logical volumes will 55be assembled and made available under 56.Pa /dev/linux_lvm/ . 57The metadata is read-only, logical volumes cannot be allocated or resized. 58.Sh EXAMPLES 59To view which 60.Nm 61devices are available: 62.Bd -literal -offset indent 63# geom linux_lvm list 64Geom name: vg1 65Providers: 661. Name: linux_lvm/vg1-home 67 Mediasize: 4294967296 (4.0G) 68 Sectorsize: 512 69 Mode: r0w0e0 702. Name: linux_lvm/vg1-logs 71 Mediasize: 4294967296 (4.0G) 72 Sectorsize: 512 73 Mode: r0w0e0 74Consumers: 751. Name: ada0s1 76 Mediasize: 80023716864 (75G) 77 Sectorsize: 512 78 Mode: r0w0e0 79.Ed 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr GEOM 4 , 82.Xr geom 8 83.Sh AUTHORS 84.An -nosplit 85The 86.Nm 87driver was written by 88.An Andrew Thompson Aq Mt thompsa@FreeBSD.org . 89