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+==========================================
+LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks)
+==========================================
+
+:Author: Originally Written by FlatCap - Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>.
+:Last Updated: Anton Altaparmakov on 30 March 2007 for Windows Vista.
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+Windows 2000, XP, and Vista use a new partitioning scheme.  It is a complete
+replacement for the MSDOS style partitions.  It stores its information in a
+1MiB journalled database at the end of the physical disk.  The size of
+partitions is limited only by disk space.  The maximum number of partitions is
+nearly 2000.
+
+Any partitions created under the LDM are called "Dynamic Disks".  There are no
+longer any primary or extended partitions.  Normal MSDOS style partitions are
+now known as Basic Disks.
+
+If you wish to use Spanned, Striped, Mirrored or RAID 5 Volumes, you must use
+Dynamic Disks.  The journalling allows Windows to make changes to these
+partitions and filesystems without the need to reboot.
+
+Once the LDM driver has divided up the disk, you can use the MD driver to
+assemble any multi-partition volumes, e.g.  Stripes, RAID5.
+
+To prevent legacy applications from repartitioning the disk, the LDM creates a
+dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition.  This is what is
+supported with the Linux LDM driver.
+
+A newer approach that has been implemented with Vista is to put LDM on top of a
+GPT label disk.  This is not supported by the Linux LDM driver yet.
+
+
+Example
+-------
+
+Below we have a 50MiB disk, divided into seven partitions.
+
+.. note::
+
+   The missing 1MiB at the end of the disk is where the LDM database is
+   stored.
+
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|Device || Offset Bytes | Sectors | MiB || Size   Bytes | Sectors | MiB|
++=======++==============+=========+=====++==============+=========+====+
+|hda    ||            0 |       0 |   0 ||     52428800 |  102400 |  50|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|hda1   ||     51380224 |  100352 |  49 ||      1048576 |    2048 |   1|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|hda2   ||        16384 |      32 |   0 ||      6979584 |   13632 |   6|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|hda3   ||      6995968 |   13664 |   6 ||     10485760 |   20480 |  10|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|hda4   ||     17481728 |   34144 |  16 ||      4194304 |    8192 |   4|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|hda5   ||     21676032 |   42336 |  20 ||      5242880 |   10240 |   5|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|hda6   ||     26918912 |   52576 |  25 ||     10485760 |   20480 |  10|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+|hda7   ||     37404672 |   73056 |  35 ||     13959168 |   27264 |  13|
++-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+
+
+The LDM Database may not store the partitions in the order that they appear on
+disk, but the driver will sort them.
+
+When Linux boots, you will see something like::
+
+  hda: 102400 sectors w/32KiB Cache, CHS=50/64/32
+  hda: [LDM] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7
+
+
+Compiling LDM Support
+---------------------
+
+To enable LDM, choose the following two options: 
+
+  - "Advanced partition selection" CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED
+  - "Windows Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disk) support" CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION
+
+If you believe the driver isn't working as it should, you can enable the extra
+debugging code.  This will produce a LOT of output.  The option is:
+
+  - "Windows LDM extra logging" CONFIG_LDM_DEBUG
+
+N.B. The partition code cannot be compiled as a module.
+
+As with all the partition code, if the driver doesn't see signs of its type of
+partition, it will pass control to another driver, so there is no harm in
+enabling it.
+
+If you have Dynamic Disks but don't enable the driver, then all you will see
+is a dummy MSDOS partition filling the whole disk.  You won't be able to mount
+any of the volumes on the disk.
+
+
+Booting
+-------
+
+If you enable LDM support, then lilo is capable of booting from any of the
+discovered partitions.  However, grub does not understand the LDM partitioning
+and cannot boot from a Dynamic Disk.
+
+
+More Documentation
+------------------
+
+There is an Overview of the LDM together with complete Technical Documentation.
+It is available for download.
+
+  http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
+
+If you have any LDM questions that aren't answered in the documentation, email
+me.
+
+Cheers,
+    FlatCap - Richard Russon
+    ldm@flatcap.org
+