Re: Linux support for Microsoft dynamic disks?

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Mon, 14 May 2001 14:44:28 -0600 (MDT)

Art writes:
> Understanding the layout of a dynamic disk is just a part of the problem
> as far as I can see it.
> What if I have two (three,four) dynamic disks with volumes organized into a
> software stripe (raid0) under Windows?
> There must be an implementation of MS' software raid in the linux kernel in
> order to access that "striped filesystem" under linux, I'm I right?

I think the correct place to start implementing this is in the framework
of the EVMS project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/evms). It is doing
the work of a generalized block-remapping driver for Linux. They already
have working Linux LVM kernel drivers, along with MS-DOS partition code,
etc. Adding in the NT dynamic disk remapping would probably be welcome.

Cheers, Andreas

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