Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> writes:

> > > What do say Veritas or IBM's LVMs do?
> >
> > I have no idea.
> 
> I'd suggest we do something like that.
> 
> Actually, it would be VERY NICE to have the same disk layout as one or the
> other LVM. :-)

What's "VERY NICE" about it? Much of this exercise is about having
tools to parse N formats of partition tables; once we can do that,
then the layout of one or another LVM can just be handled by another
partition-reader, and I don't see what the benefit is of using that
format for our own purposes.

        - Nathan