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Re: problems with GPT (and maybe dkctl wedges) on LVM volumes



On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 09:28:38AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 12:10:25AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> >      When was this changed?  vnd(4) on my -current box (which
> > admittedly isn't all that current anymore) still says that it only
> > supports local file systems.
> 
> It still says that - I am not sure when (and what) was fixed (or if I just
> have been lucky and not seen the issues, whatever they would be).

The original code required a filesystem supporting VOP_BMAP, but NFS
does that.

There were probably bugs, but nothing principle that prevented
remote filesystems to act as backend.


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                                Michael van Elst
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