X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fldm.txt;h=718085bc9f1a45c26ed8ecf7f9f197c248e1bcea;hb=a48f410a0a5a6c47cdfda35af49ea0e5aafb7745;hp=e266e11c19a380e58829dc638ddd9da24233bc66;hpb=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/ldm.txt b/Documentation/ldm.txt index e266e11c19a..718085bc9f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/ldm.txt +++ b/Documentation/ldm.txt @@ -2,10 +2,13 @@ LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks) ------------------------------------------ +Originally Written by FlatCap - Richard Russon . +Last Updated by Anton Altaparmakov on 30 March 2007 for Windows Vista. + Overview -------- -Windows 2000 and XP use a new partitioning scheme. It is a complete +Windows 2000, XP, and Vista use a new partitioning scheme. It is a complete replacement for the MSDOS style partitions. It stores its information in a 1MiB journalled database at the end of the physical disk. The size of partitions is limited only by disk space. The maximum number of partitions is @@ -23,7 +26,11 @@ Once the LDM driver has divided up the disk, you can use the MD driver to assemble any multi-partition volumes, e.g. Stripes, RAID5. To prevent legacy applications from repartitioning the disk, the LDM creates a -dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition. +dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition. This is what is +supported with the Linux LDM driver. + +A newer approach that has been implemented with Vista is to put LDM on top of a +GPT label disk. This is not supported by the Linux LDM driver yet. Example @@ -88,13 +95,13 @@ and cannot boot from a Dynamic Disk. More Documentation ------------------ -There is an Overview of the LDM online together with complete Technical -Documentation. It can also be downloaded in html. +There is an Overview of the LDM together with complete Technical Documentation. +It is available for download. - http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ldm/index.html - http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html + http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37/ -If you have any LDM questions that aren't answered on the website, email me. +If you have any LDM questions that aren't answered in the documentation, email +me. Cheers, FlatCap - Richard Russon