Anyway to control dynamic disks with the IFS?

NTFSD
1

Greetings!

I’m trying to solve a rather nasty issue involving a customer and dynamic
disks. I currently do not own the IFS Kit from Microsoft and wanted to
know from those who down own it whether they have ways to control dynamic
disks with regards to importing foreign volumes, bringing those volumes
online, and possibly even processing the LDM database entries to resolve
potential conflicts with duplicate GUID signatures.

Thanks!
Bob

2

IFS kit provides nothing in terms of Dynamic Disk stuff. This requires some
information from Veritas, since DmIo is a simplified version of Veritas VxVM
(IIRC).

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: “Robert Stankey”
Newsgroups: ntfsd
To: “Windows File Systems Devs Interest List”
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: [ntfsd] Anyway to control dynamic disks with the IFS?

> Greetings!
>
> I’m trying to solve a rather nasty issue involving a customer and dynamic
> disks. I currently do not own the IFS Kit from Microsoft and wanted to
> know from those who down own it whether they have ways to control dynamic
> disks with regards to importing foreign volumes, bringing those volumes
> online, and possibly even processing the LDM database entries to resolve
> potential conflicts with duplicate GUID signatures.
>
> Thanks!
> Bob
>
> —
> Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17
>
> You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@storagecraft.com
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:29:46 +0300, Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:

IFS kit provides nothing in terms of Dynamic Disk stuff. This requires some
information from Veritas, since DmIo is a simplified version of Veritas VxVM
(IIRC).

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: “Robert Stankey”
> Newsgroups: ntfsd
> To: “Windows File Systems Devs Interest List”
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:33 AM
> Subject: [ntfsd] Anyway to control dynamic disks with the IFS?
>
>
Somehow I knew someone was gong to say this. :slight_smile:

Its really frustrating when you’re trying to solve a problem that could
easily be solved by a simple API call upon which you cannot get access to.

Thanks,
Bob

>> Greetings!
>>
>> I’m trying to solve a rather nasty issue involving a customer and dynamic
>> disks. I currently do not own the IFS Kit from Microsoft and wanted to
>> know from those who down own it whether they have ways to control dynamic
>> disks with regards to importing foreign volumes, bringing those volumes
>> online, and possibly even processing the LDM database entries to resolve
>> potential conflicts with duplicate GUID signatures.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Bob
>>
>> —
>> Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
> https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17
>>
>> You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@storagecraft.com
>> To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com

4

Have a look at diskpart utility provided by Microsoft. Neither MS/VRTS
provides API to manage dynamic disks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Stankey [mailto:xxxxx@lsil.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:37 AM
To: Windows File Systems Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntfsd] Anyway to control dynamic disks with the IFS?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:29:46 +0300, Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:

IFS kit provides nothing in terms of Dynamic Disk stuff. This requires
some
information from Veritas, since DmIo is a simplified version of Veritas
VxVM
(IIRC).

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: “Robert Stankey”
> Newsgroups: ntfsd
> To: “Windows File Systems Devs Interest List”
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:33 AM
> Subject: [ntfsd] Anyway to control dynamic disks with the IFS?
>
>
Somehow I knew someone was gong to say this. :slight_smile:

Its really frustrating when you’re trying to solve a problem that could
easily be solved by a simple API call upon which you cannot get access to.

Thanks,
Bob

>> Greetings!
>>
>> I’m trying to solve a rather nasty issue involving a customer and dynamic
>> disks. I currently do not own the IFS Kit from Microsoft and wanted to
>> know from those who down own it whether they have ways to control dynamic
>> disks with regards to importing foreign volumes, bringing those volumes
>> online, and possibly even processing the LDM database entries to resolve
>> potential conflicts with duplicate GUID signatures.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Bob
>>
>> —
>> Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
> https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17
>>
>> You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@storagecraft.com
>> To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com

—
Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:29:09 -0800, Pashupati Kumar wrote:

I’ll check into it.

Thanks!

Have a look at diskpart utility provided by Microsoft. Neither MS/VRTS
provides API to manage dynamic disks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Stankey [mailto:xxxxx@lsil.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:37 AM
To: Windows File Systems Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntfsd] Anyway to control dynamic disks with the IFS?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:29:46 +0300, Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:

> IFS kit provides nothing in terms of Dynamic Disk stuff. This requires
some
> information from Veritas, since DmIo is a simplified version of Veritas
VxVM
> (IIRC).
>
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> xxxxx@storagecraft.com
> http://www.storagecraft.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: “Robert Stankey”
>> Newsgroups: ntfsd
>> To: “Windows File Systems Devs Interest List”
>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:33 AM
>> Subject: [ntfsd] Anyway to control dynamic disks with the IFS?
>>
>>
> Somehow I knew someone was gong to say this. :slight_smile:
>
> Its really frustrating when you’re trying to solve a problem that could
> easily be solved by a simple API call upon which you cannot get access to.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> I’m trying to solve a rather nasty issue involving a customer and dynamic
>>> disks. I currently do not own the IFS Kit from Microsoft and wanted to
>>> know from those who down own it whether they have ways to control dynamic
>>> disks with regards to importing foreign volumes, bringing those volumes
>>> online, and possibly even processing the LDM database entries to resolve
>>> potential conflicts with duplicate GUID signatures.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> —
>>> Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
>> https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17
>>>
>>> You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@storagecraft.com
>>> To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com
>
> —
> Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
> https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17
>
> You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@legato.com
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com