Documentation/admin-guide/ldm.rst

2 LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks)
5 :Author: Originally Written by FlatCap - Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>.
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13 1MiB journalled database at the end of the physical disk.  The size of
14 partitions is limited only by disk space.  The maximum number of partitions is
23 partitions and filesystems without the need to reboot.
26 assemble any multi-partition volumes, e.g.  Stripes, RAID5.
29 dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition.  This is what is
32 A newer approach that has been implemented with Vista is to put LDM on top of a
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43    The missing 1MiB at the end of the disk is where the LDM database is
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80   - "Advanced partition selection" CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED
81   - "Windows Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disk) support" CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION
84 debugging code.  This will produce a LOT of output.  The option is:
86   - "Windows LDM extra logging" CONFIG_LDM_DEBUG
90 As with all the partition code, if the driver doesn't see signs of its type of
96 any of the volumes on the disk.
99 Booting  chapter
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102 If you enable LDM support, then lilo is capable of booting from any of the
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110 There is an Overview of the LDM together with complete Technical Documentation.
113   http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
119     FlatCap - Richard Russon