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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   My Boot Manager was already capable of taking partition names (for the    
   MBR partitioning scheme) from the IBM Boot Manager MBR partition table    
   extensions.  Thanks to information provided by Alex Taylor, I've now    
   updated it so that it uses the IBM LVM metadata, falling back to the IBM    
   Boot Manager partition table extensions if the IBM LVM metadata aren't    
   there.  I've also updated DASDPART so that it does the same thing.   
      
   My test systems here don't have IBM's LVM.  The EFI partitioning scheme    
   is the way of the future, and my test systems have EFI partition tables    
   and MBR partition tables with no more than the original IBM Boot Manager    
   extensions.  But Dave Yeo, whom I believe has OS/2 systems with IBM's    
   LVM, was going to have a go with my Boot Manager.  I'm still waiting to    
   hear back from him.  (You'll of course now need the new Boot Manager    
   that I've just made, M. Yeo.)  I've added in the IBM LVM partition table    
   support blind, and, in the absence of documentation as to the exact    
   algorithm for locating the IBM LVM metadata (a point that we've    
   discussed before, with reference to how something in Ubuntu tidies up    
   container partitions in MBR partition tables to eliminate otherwise    
   unusuable "holes" that waste space) this might require some tweaking to    
   cover all possibilities, which of course I cannot do here without    
   something to test against.  If you want to beat M. Yeo to the finishing    
   post, drop me a line.  (-:   
      
   I say that the EFI partitioning scheme is the way of the future.  In    
   fact, it's the way of the present, if one takes off the OS/2-tinted    
   glasses.  The rest of the world is already going EFI, and has been for    
   some several years now.  (My Boot Manager and DASDPART tool already    
   understand EFI partition tables.)  So don't expect wonders in the way of    
   OS/2 LVM partition table support.  I'm going to work a little more on    
   incorporating the IBM LVM drive letter information into things like my    
   Boot Manager.  But if you want an OS/2 LVM tool that will do all of the    
   volume and partition management, M. Taylor is still the person to bribe,    
   not me.  (-:   
      
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