[linux-lvm] where do i find the device mapper/LVM2 documentation?

Daniel Phillips dphillips at sistina.com
Fri May 30 13:04:01 UTC 2003


On Friday 30 May 2003 19:22, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>  >>  On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:21:27PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
>  >>  > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:27:15PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  > If you're interested in writing your own targets I suggest you look
>  >>  > at a couple of the trivial targets that already exist.  Such as
>  >>  > dm-linear.c, dm-stripe.c.
>  >>
>  >>  i am planning to write my own targets as a graduate project.
>  >>  My idea was encryption and possibly compression as well.
>  >>  (is anyone else doing any of these targets?)
>
> An encrypting target would be nice, but does it offer any value over an
> encrypting loopback device?

Simplicity and reliability?

Regards,

Daniel




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