Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue 20 Feb 2007 23:05:12 NZDT +1300, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> > so resorting to lvm should be the proposed solution, not
>> > repartitionning with less than 15 partitions :-)
>> 
>> Yes, we can change the wording ;-).  The problem is that all solutions
>> to support more than 15 partitions in an automatic way might cause
>> problems ;-(
>
> IMHO it would be good to mention as well that the switch to libata is
> necessary, and that unfortunately Linux doesn't support more than 15
> partitions with libata. Proposed solutions are [...]
>
> Woudln't it be better to give some choice? E.g. "Use kernel parameter
> ... (not recommended), use lvm" Are there any other fundamental choices?
> Isn't evms becoming popular?

I added lvm to our text as other option.  There's no kernel parameter AFAIK,

Andreas
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