From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
To: aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk (Anton Altaparmakov)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.7 Add support for Dynamic Disks
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:52:36 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107262352.f6QNqbf488387@saturn.cs.uml.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15Pu2w-0005bt-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk> from "Anton Altaparmakov" at Jul 26, 2001 11:55:58 PM
> - Patch adds support for Dynamic Disks which are introduced by Windows
> 2000 and are also used by Windows XP, thus allowing people with dual-boot
> configurations access to their Windows dynamic disk partitions from Linux.
...
> Note that we just do it for all partitions in order. We perform no special
> treatment when partitions are part of raid arrays, etc, we just create
> each member partition as one device (hdb5, etc), handling raid arrays is
> up to future extensions / user space tools / the users to deal with.
Linux has long held an interoperability advantage over UNIX and BSD
due to the use of normal PC disk partitions.
Now a new standard is here. We must swallow our pride and accept it,
tossing out our old LVM format. It's time to embrace and extend.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-26 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-26 22:55 Anton Altaparmakov
2001-07-26 23:52 ` Albert D. Cahalan [this message]
2001-07-27 3:01 ` Richard Gooch
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