From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:21:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:21:01 -0400 Received: from ecstasy.ksu.ru ([193.232.252.41]:12688 "EHLO ecstasy.ksu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:20:50 -0400 X-Pass-Through: Kazan State University network Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Art Boulatov Organization: Kazan State University To: Guest section DW , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: Linux support for Microsoft dynamic disks? Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 22:15:26 +0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010513000214.00ab3810@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20010512203445.A4194@vger.timpanogas.org> <20010513124606.A7758@win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010513124606.A7758@win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051322152601.00874@artsystems.ksu.ru> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 13 May 2001 02:46 pm, Guest section DW wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:34:45PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > What is your specific question? > > Well, my specific question would be: enough information to support > mounting filesystems that live on a dynamic disk. > > Andries 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? Art.