Alex Hornung has imported LVM2 from NetBSD, along with cryptsetup and dm. (Not dm(8), but devicemapper) LVM(8) stands for Logical Volume Management, and it makes storage management much easier; you may have encountered it on NetBSD or Linux. Those additional tools make it possible to encrypt volumes. Alex has published details on how to use it.
Also: Alex’s not-really-related-but-I -mistakenly-linked-to-it udev/libdevattr work.
That’s awesome!
Thanks, Alex Hornung!
Oh and when the website sync with these news?
The latest is still “Messylaneous for 2010/03/08”
Justin,
the second link (“how it works”) links to the udev/libdevattr stuff which is actually unrelated to dm/LVM. That’s an effort to have something along the lines of linux’ libudev.
The only implementation notes about dm/lvm/cryptsetup are hidden in the first mail (your “how to use it” link).