LVM and LVM2 support in Grub

[Dag Wieers]

Hi guys,

Today I met Alasdair Kergon again and Tim brought up the question when we 
can expect LVM support in Grub. This is a feature that is now missing for 
some time and a lot of people are waiting for this.

Alasdair is very interested to make it possible to have Grub use some of 
the LVM functionality to allow for this directly which would probably work 
much better than the existing SoC project that apparently does not support 
the full set of LVM installations that exist.

Would it be posible to have this discussed or have a patch accepted for 
this ? Alasdair said that here at LinuxTag the past few days 7 of Red 
Hat's LVM engineers were present and they had some internal meetings. I 
am pretty sure Red Hat can make some resources available to make this 
work.

What is necessary to get this thing going and committed upstream ? Who can 
help with this from the Grub community ?

PS I am just trying to ignite some discussion so that I can use this 
myself as a happy Linux, Grub and LVM user ;-)

Thanks in advance,
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