hi Grumpy!
Maybe I was not clear..
It's on the same machine, not on the network.
I run win xp pro and have on the same machine a raid 0 volume. This volume is builded with one partition on the first HD and one on the second. But I don't want to build a raid 0 (via windows tools), but access that already exists.
Thank you
Tom
Maybe I was not clear..
It's on the same machine, not on the network.
I run win xp pro and have on the same machine a raid 0 volume. This volume is builded with one partition on the first HD and one on the second. But I don't want to build a raid 0 (via windows tools), but access that already exists.
Thank you
Tom
It's not going to happen on the same computer. There's no way Windows can mount a Linux RAID-0 file system.
Grumpy
Grumpy
The problem is not on the FS level. About FS, win can access linux ones (ext2, ext3), look http://www.fs-driver.org/, or http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm.
The problem here is win to recognize raid devices. Raid system is not Linux specific, but a open standard. Possible it is, I'd like to know if it was implemented.
Thank you
Tom
The problem here is win to recognize raid devices. Raid system is not Linux specific, but a open standard. Possible it is, I'd like to know if it was implemented.
Thank you
Tom
Sorry, bud, but it'll take more than a couple 404s to make me believe that Windows (FAT or NTFS) and Linux Filesystems are interchangable.
Even if you're right, though, I guarantee you wouldn't get RAID volumes working on the same machine for both OSs. Take that to the bank.
>Sorry, bud, but it'll take more than a couple 404s to make me believe that
>Windows (FAT or NTFS) and Linux Filesystems are interchangable.
=) maybe http://www.fs-driver.org/ and http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm without comma and point at final of the urls that phpbb includes to the link
>Windows (FAT or NTFS) and Linux Filesystems are interchangable.
=) maybe http://www.fs-driver.org/ and http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm without comma and point at final of the urls that phpbb includes to the link
Hi tomlobato,
You've left out some important details like:
1) Was the RAID volume controlled by software or hardware RAID?
2) Have these disks have been moved to another machine or are they in the same machine?
I'll try to cover each scenario.
If 1) is hardware and 2) is same machine then you should be able to access this in Windows by installing the required hardware RAID drivers.
If 1) is hardware and 2) is different machine whether you can access the RAID volume or not is down to compatibilities between the 2 RAID controllers.
If 1) is software then you have no chance of accessing the RAID volume in Windows unless there is some tool out there that I'm not aware of that makes Windows XP aware of Linux software RAID (in which case it's up to you to find it)
You've left out some important details like:
1) Was the RAID volume controlled by software or hardware RAID?
2) Have these disks have been moved to another machine or are they in the same machine?
I'll try to cover each scenario.
If 1) is hardware and 2) is same machine then you should be able to access this in Windows by installing the required hardware RAID drivers.
If 1) is hardware and 2) is different machine whether you can access the RAID volume or not is down to compatibilities between the 2 RAID controllers.
If 1) is software then you have no chance of accessing the RAID volume in Windows unless there is some tool out there that I'm not aware of that makes Windows XP aware of Linux software RAID (in which case it's up to you to find it)
>You've left out some important details like:
No, he hasn't.
>Was the RAID volume controlled by software or hardware RAID?
It's /dev/md0 so it's software RAID.
>Have these disks have been moved to another machine or are they in the same machine?
He's already said it's the same machine.
It's theoretically possible to do, but it'll be a total pain the backside. This is (one of the many reasons) why you shouldn't use RAID 0...
No, he hasn't.
>Was the RAID volume controlled by software or hardware RAID?
It's /dev/md0 so it's software RAID.
>Have these disks have been moved to another machine or are they in the same machine?
He's already said it's the same machine.
It's theoretically possible to do, but it'll be a total pain the backside. This is (one of the many reasons) why you shouldn't use RAID 0...
If the filesystem is FAT32, you might be able to, but its unlikely due to incompatibilities between the RAID drivers.
If windows disk manager seed the volume, you can try to assign it a drive letter.
But I suspect the Linux RAID driver writes a header to the volume which won't mean anything to Windows - WIndows will see individual disks and not an array.
I went the other way - I had Linux try to recognize my Windows array, but all Linux saw was individual disks.
If windows disk manager seed the volume, you can try to assign it a drive letter.
But I suspect the Linux RAID driver writes a header to the volume which won't mean anything to Windows - WIndows will see individual disks and not an array.
I went the other way - I had Linux try to recognize my Windows array, but all Linux saw was individual disks.
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Brute force solution
Add another (large enough) drive.
Format new drive so both Windows and Linux can read it.
Boot to linux from a cd.
Back up data from raid0 to new drive.
Format the drives as a new raid under windows or get a hardware raid solution.
Restore data as needed.
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Add another (large enough) drive.
Format new drive so both Windows and Linux can read it.
Boot to linux from a cd.
Back up data from raid0 to new drive.
Format the drives as a new raid under windows or get a hardware raid solution.
Restore data as needed.
Q
Blimey, aren't you the master of the universe. Pardon me for not knowing that /dev/md0 meant it was software RAID and missing a sentence.
You don't even know why he decided to use it in the first place so you being rather fatuous in declaring that he shouldn't use RAID 0.
At least we agree on one thing, with software RAID you might as well forget accessing it in Windows.
>blimey, aren't you the master of the universe
Evidently you didn't read my message in the spirit it was intended. I intended it to be a "actually, though you might not realise it, saying that it's /dev/md0 means that it's a software RAID".
As in, it was intended to be a helpful comment, not a "nyah, nyah, I know more than you, dumbass" comment.
Sorry if you took it the wrong way!
>you don't even know why he decided to use it in the first place so you being rather fatuous in declaring that he shouldn't use RAID 0.
Well, no. My opinions on RAID 0 have been stated at great length in other threads. Suffice it to say that RAID 0 is, for everything other than a few highly specialised applications, utterly worthless. And even in those specialised applications you need to have a proper backup of all data.
Evidently you didn't read my message in the spirit it was intended. I intended it to be a "actually, though you might not realise it, saying that it's /dev/md0 means that it's a software RAID".
As in, it was intended to be a helpful comment, not a "nyah, nyah, I know more than you, dumbass" comment.
Sorry if you took it the wrong way!
>you don't even know why he decided to use it in the first place so you being rather fatuous in declaring that he shouldn't use RAID 0.
Well, no. My opinions on RAID 0 have been stated at great length in other threads. Suffice it to say that RAID 0 is, for everything other than a few highly specialised applications, utterly worthless. And even in those specialised applications you need to have a proper backup of all data.
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