March 08, 2000 09:32 AM

Inside Storage Management, Part 2

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Mark Russinovich
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Learn how Windows 2000 improves NT's storage architecture
I began this two-part series with a look at Windows NT 4.0's storage management architecture. I reviewed that architecture's reliance on DOS-style partitioning, its storage-driver architecture, and its use of NT device layering to implement enhancements such as software-based fault tolerance and performance monitoring. NT 4.0 storage management has two significant limitations: an upper limit of 26 volumes and a ...

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Nice article, any idea how the GUID for the \\??\\Volume{GUID} is computed ? What i am interested is, in knowing the factors that could influence the change of drive letters assigned to removable storage drives.

Kaarthik 4/28/2004 12:45:02 AM

I read your article. It is good but i have one problem that my dynamic disk shows as offline. I need win32 api call to reactivate my dynamic disks in programmatically.
Thanks in advance

Bhaskar4/13/2004 1:09:13 AM

Good article...Congrats, but Is there any way to refresh the DynamicDiskGroup configuration from the command line without the use of the MMC Snap-In? With mountvol and linkd you only can create new reparse point but I can't use this option with DynamicDiskGroups.
Veritas LDM is a complex command line interface for this job.

wellington2/9/2004 4:50:04 PM

How I make to relate the letter of the partition with the dynamic disk ?

Kabloc Vacavoa do Pendulo Loko 4/23/2003 2:19:10 PM

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