From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:46:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:46:03 -0400 Received: from h24-65-193-28.cg.shawcable.net ([24.65.193.28]:18172 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:45:59 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200105142044.f4EKiSQY002195@webber.adilger.int> Subject: Re: Linux support for Microsoft dynamic disks? In-Reply-To: <01051322152601.00874@artsystems.ksu.ru> "from Art Boulatov at May 13, 2001 10:15:26 pm" To: Art Boulatov Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:44:28 -0600 (MDT) CC: Guest section DW , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Anton Altaparmakov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL87 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert