Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>>>>   - Repartition your system so that maximal 15 partitions are used.
>>>>     To repartition, use your existing operating system.
>>>>   In the future only the new libata drivers will be supported, so we
>>>>   advice to repartition.
>>> The last sentence above is incredibly bad news, unless something
>>> happens to libata to eliminate the idiotic SCSI partition limitation
>>> of 15.
>>
>> Agreed the SCSI limit is idiotic, but would anyone but power users have
>> more than 15 partitions and _not_ also use a partition mover like lvm or
>> evms, which don't have this limitation??
>>
>> Volker
>>
> 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 ;-(

Andreas
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