Bug 948636 - Request for including Windows Dynamic Disk support in stock Fedora kernel
Summary: Request for including Windows Dynamic Disk support in stock Fedora kernel
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-04-04 21:42 UTC by Lenry
Modified: 2013-04-19 05:47 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-04-15 23:51:37 UTC
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Description Lenry 2013-04-04 21:42:40 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
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I would like to request to defaultly enable Windows Dynamic disk support in the stock Fedora kernel, as I have a disk with dynamic partitions on it, one of them being /home (don't ask), and every time there is an update for the kernel, I have to recompile it because of that one tick in the kernelconfig.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a disk with dynamic partiton
2. try to mount them
Actual Results:  
Fedora will be unable to recognize the partitions on that disk, including /home, rendering the system unbootable with the new kernel.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2013-04-12 15:50:43 UTC
OK.  We'll enable this.  A couple of notes:

1) It doesn't support GPT labeled dynamic partitions (possible starting with Vista I believe)

2) If for some reason it starts causing problems, it's likely to get turned back off rather quickly.

3) We aren't going to be in a position to explicitly test this, so if it breaks in the future we probably aren't going to notice.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-04-12 21:23:06 UTC
kernel-3.8.7-201.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.8.7-201.fc18

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-04-14 00:24:52 UTC
Package kernel-3.8.7-201.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kernel-3.8.7-201.fc18'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-5617/kernel-3.8.7-201.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Lenry 2013-04-15 18:23:50 UTC
I will try it at once, thank you!

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-04-15 21:57:22 UTC
kernel-3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.3.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-5224/kernel-3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.3.fc19

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-04-15 23:51:38 UTC
kernel-3.8.7-201.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-04-19 05:47:53 UTC
kernel-3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.3.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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