From dde33348e53ecab687a9768bf5262f0b8f79b7f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Altaparmakov Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:37:42 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/partitions/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/partitions/Kconfig') diff --git a/fs/partitions/Kconfig b/fs/partitions/Kconfig index 7638a1c..a99acd8 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 . -- cgit v1.1