https://github.com/maharmstone/winmd

WinMD
https://github.com/maharmstone/winmd

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WinMD

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/maharmstone/winmd
• Owner: maharmstone
• License: lgpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-08-01T00:15:23.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-18T19:31:54.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-26T08:12:17.949Z (8 days ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 308 KB
• Stars: 279
• Watchers: 20
• Forks: 23
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
WinMD v0.1

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WinMD is a driver allowing Windows to access MD RAID devices - software RAID

volumes created by `mdadm` on Linux. Bear in mind that you will still need a

filesystem driver: see, for instance, [WinBtrfs](https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs) and [Ext2fsd](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/).

Everything here is released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL);

see the file LICENCE for more info. You are encouraged to play about with the

source code as you will, and I'd appreciate a note ([email protected]) if you

come up with anything nifty.

Donations

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I've been developing this driver for fun, and in the hopes that someone out there

will find it useful. But if you want to provide some pecuniary encouragement, it'd

be very much appreciated:

* [Paypal](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=3XQVCQ6YB55L2&lc=GB&item_name=WinMD%20donation&currency_code=GBP&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted)

Features

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* RAID 0

* RAID 1

* RAID 4

* RAID 5

* RAID 6

* RAID 10 (near, far, offset)

* Linear

* Recognizes version 1 superblocks (1.0, 1.1, 1.2)

* Nested sets

Todo

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* whole-disk RAID (i.e. recognizing partitions on MD device)

* reshaping

* rebuilding

* checking

* degraded mounts

* adding and removing devices

* creating new sets from Windows

* RAID4/5/6 journal

* write-intent bitmaps

* version 0.9 superblocks

Installation

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To install the driver, [download and extract the latest release](https://github.com/maharmstone/winmd/releases),

right-click winmd.inf, and choose Install. The driver is signed, so should work out

of the box on modern versions of Windows.

For the very latest versions of Windows 10, Microsoft introduced more onerous

requirements for signing, which are only available to corporations and not individuals.

If this affects you (i.e. you get a signing error when trying to install the driver),

try disabling Secure Boot in your BIOS settings.

There's also a [Chocolatey package](https://chocolatey.org/packages/winmd) available -

if you have Chocolatey installed, try running `choco install winmd`.

Uninstalling

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From an elevated command prompt, run:

`RUNDLL32.EXE SETUPAPI.DLL,InstallHinfSection DefaultUninstall 132 winmd.inf`

You will probably need to give the full path to winmd.inf. Next time you reboot, Windows

will remove the driver from your system.

You can also disable it by opening regedit and setting the value of

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\winmd\Start to 4.

Changelog

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v0.1 (2019-07-31):

* Initial release