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| 2 | LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks) | 2 | LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks) |
| 3 | ------------------------------------------ | 3 | ------------------------------------------ |
| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | Originally Written by FlatCap - Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>. | ||
| 6 | Last Updated by Anton Altaparmakov on 30 March 2007 for Windows Vista. | ||
| 7 | |||
| 5 | Overview | 8 | Overview |
| 6 | -------- | 9 | -------- |
| 7 | 10 | ||
| 8 | Windows 2000 and XP use a new partitioning scheme. It is a complete | 11 | Windows 2000, XP, and Vista use a new partitioning scheme. It is a complete |
| 9 | replacement for the MSDOS style partitions. It stores its information in a | 12 | replacement for the MSDOS style partitions. It stores its information in a |
| 10 | 1MiB journalled database at the end of the physical disk. The size of | 13 | 1MiB journalled database at the end of the physical disk. The size of |
| 11 | partitions is limited only by disk space. The maximum number of partitions is | 14 | 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 | |||
| 23 | assemble any multi-partition volumes, e.g. Stripes, RAID5. | 26 | assemble any multi-partition volumes, e.g. Stripes, RAID5. |
| 24 | 27 | ||
| 25 | To prevent legacy applications from repartitioning the disk, the LDM creates a | 28 | To prevent legacy applications from repartitioning the disk, the LDM creates a |
| 26 | dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition. | 29 | dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition. This is what is |
| 30 | supported with the Linux LDM driver. | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | A newer approach that has been implemented with Vista is to put LDM on top of a | ||
| 33 | GPT label disk. This is not supported by the Linux LDM driver yet. | ||
| 27 | 34 | ||
| 28 | 35 | ||
| 29 | Example | 36 | Example |
| @@ -88,13 +95,13 @@ and cannot boot from a Dynamic Disk. | |||
| 88 | More Documentation | 95 | More Documentation |
| 89 | ------------------ | 96 | ------------------ |
| 90 | 97 | ||
| 91 | There is an Overview of the LDM online together with complete Technical | 98 | There is an Overview of the LDM together with complete Technical Documentation. |
| 92 | Documentation. It can also be downloaded in html. | 99 | It is available for download. |
| 93 | 100 | ||
| 94 | http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ldm/index.html | 101 | http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37/ |
| 95 | http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html | ||
| 96 | 102 | ||
| 97 | If you have any LDM questions that aren't answered on the website, email me. | 103 | If you have any LDM questions that aren't answered in the documentation, email |
| 104 | me. | ||
| 98 | 105 | ||
| 99 | Cheers, | 106 | Cheers, |
| 100 | FlatCap - Richard Russon | 107 | FlatCap - Richard Russon |