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From: Kazz <ka...@st...> - 2007-04-10 23:19:04
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Hey, sorry I didn't respond earlier, but I've been pretty busy lately and I just got this. Yes, I am still interested, however I was forced to change my planned setup somewhat due to LDM not being a working option at the time, so I would have to risk making all of my partitions (windows and Linux) inaccessible to really try it right now. I'm not sure when I'll get a chance, but if I can clear off another hard drive to test it on then I'll give it a shot as soon as I can. Just to be sure, if it does work on one drive (probably an old PATA/100), there should be no problems with my other SATA2 drives, right? The way I understand it, it reads the partition table or it doesn't, and there shouldn't be a reason for it to fail on one if it works on another, but if I'm wrong I don't want to risk having to go through something weird and scary to try to convert them back to regular partition tables before I'm pretty sure I won't have to. One more question since if anyone can answer it, you probably can. I planned to use windows software RAID 0 and RAID 5 on different partitions since I'd read that Linux was capable of using those too, but when I finally went to set it up, I discovered that vista "ultimate" wasn't quite so ultimate when it came to software RAID, and it had no options for RAID 5 or even RAID 1. Since they can be read in Linux, do you know if there is any way to *create* those types of arrays in Linux (or anywhere else) and get windows to use them? If not I'll just use RAID 0 in windows, but I am very annoyed (and unfortunately not surprised) that they are keeping redundant arrays from home users who probably need it the most since servers are usually backed up externally and most home computers aren't. Enough ranting I guess, I'll let you know when I have a chance to test the patch, and please let me know if someone else tests it first. :) Thanks again! Kazz On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 22:24 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Hi, > > Are you still interested in getting Vista LDM to work on Linux? > > I have investigated the Vista LDM and have come up with a new patch > that may well work. It is attached to this email. To apply it save > the patch in your home directory (or wherever) then "cd" into the > kernel sources directory (the patch is against the latest 2.6.20 > kernel, actually against the current kernel git tree but I have > tested that it applies cleanly to the 2.6.20 kernel also) and then do: > > patch -p1 < ~/ldm-vista.diff > > Obviously if it is not in your home directory you need to replace > "~/" with the path to the patch... > > You should see this output: > > $ patch -p1 < ~/ldm-vista.diff patching file Documentation/ldm.txt > patching file fs/partitions/Kconfig > patching file fs/partitions/ldm.c > patching file fs/partitions/ldm.h > > Then recompile the kernel with LDM enabled and try it again with the > Vista LDM. Hopefully it will now work. > > If you (or anyone) tries it please let me know how it works out. If > it works I will submit it to Linus for inclusion into mainline... > > Best regards, > > Anton |
