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| author | Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> | 2007-05-21 09:37:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-21 09:58:40 -0700 |
| commit | dde33348e53ecab687a9768bf5262f0b8f79b7f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6bfb828e56147b7c327a1304c27e93fc92f6c060 /fs/partitions/Kconfig | |
| parent | 17304383ebc1ce68a88030ac4d18ea549d9578c7 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-dde33348e53ecab687a9768bf5262f0b8f79b7f2.tar.gz lwn-dde33348e53ecab687a9768bf5262f0b8f79b7f2.zip | |
LDM: Fix for Windows Vista dynamic disks
This fixes the LDM driver so that it works with Windows Vista dynamic
disks which are subtly different to Windows 2000/XP ones.
The patch was needed to get a Vista formatted dynamic disk to be
recognized and parsed successfully.
Thanks go to Chris Teachworth for the report and testing.
Cc: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/partitions/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/partitions/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/Kconfig b/fs/partitions/Kconfig index 7638a1c42a7d..a99acd8de353 100644 --- a/fs/partitions/Kconfig +++ b/fs/partitions/Kconfig @@ -166,8 +166,12 @@ config LDM_PARTITION depends on PARTITION_ADVANCED ---help--- Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which - were partitioned using Windows 2000's or XP's Logical Disk Manager. - They are also known as "Dynamic Disks". + were partitioned using Windows 2000's/XP's or Vista's Logical Disk + Manager. They are also known as "Dynamic Disks". + + Note this driver only supports Dynamic Disks with a protective MBR + label, i.e. DOS partition table. It does not support GPT labelled + Dynamic Disks yet as can be created with Vista. Windows 2000 introduced the concept of Dynamic Disks to get around the limitations of the PC's partitioning scheme. The Logical Disk @@ -175,8 +179,8 @@ config LDM_PARTITION mirrored, striped or RAID volumes, all without the need for rebooting. - Normal partitions are now called Basic Disks under Windows 2000 and - XP. + Normal partitions are now called Basic Disks under Windows 2000, XP, + and Vista. For a fuller description read <file:Documentation/ldm.txt>. |