Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:44:23 -0000 From: "Andrew Brampton" <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks) in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <197001c5e2f9$b9b024f0$0a00a8c0@Andrew>
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Hi, I think I've found the answer to my question already, but I wanted to be 100% sure. Can I read Window Dynamic Disk volumes from within FreeBSD? More precisely RAID-5 volume across multiple disks. I've googled and googled and I think the answer is no. The linux-ntfs project has a tool that can display information about the volume but the file system driver isn't fully developed yet. If there is no LDM support in FreeBSD, I think I'm going to port the userland linux-ntfs ldminfo tool to FreeBSD, however I have a quick question about GPL. If I port the code then obviously my version will have to be under the GPL. I was wondering how this impacts the BSD licence? I presume users of FreeBSD can happily use this tool, and hopefully one day it would be allowed in ports. But say I extended this tool into a file system driver (which I know is a big leap) would this code ever be considered for the Kernel, or would I have to code from scratch to avoid the GPL restrictions? Thanks in advance Andrew Brampton
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