Albert D. Cahalan writes:
> > - 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.
I don't see why we can't have both. It's just another partition
format.
Regards,
Richard....
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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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