On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:14:53PM +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: > I.e. instead of having formats dictate the wedges, have LVM dictate the > (hidden) backend encoding needed for say booting? While still have all the > configurability like growing/shrinking/moving/joining etc?
That makes no sense. The fundamental idea behind LVM is to have an extend based mapping layer, so that growing/shrinking/cow can be done with constant time. Joerg