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Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:40:55 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709211235290.5865@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Friday 2007-09-21 at 10:02 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
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> More than 15 are supported with LVM since ages. The problem we're
> talking about is migration - and therefore the bug is called on libata.
> Seeing your confusion, I guess it should have been stated "libata for
> PATA devices".
Unfortunately, LVM means repartitioning every thing, and it opens another
can of worms, I'm afraid.
> Hannes has to answer the rest of the email - and I guess you should
> start this discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list or on the libata
> development list. We're speaking about a limitation of the upstream
> kernel,
I know. A very unfortunate limitation. A bad decission, IMHO.
But I'm not knowledgeable enough to participate in those lists. I'm just
a... let's say, a power user.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Friday 2007-09-21 at 10:02 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
...
> More than 15 are supported with LVM since ages. The problem we're
> talking about is migration - and therefore the bug is called on libata.
> Seeing your confusion, I guess it should have been stated "libata for
> PATA devices".
Unfortunately, LVM means repartitioning every thing, and it opens another
can of worms, I'm afraid.
> Hannes has to answer the rest of the email - and I guess you should
> start this discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list or on the libata
> development list. We're speaking about a limitation of the upstream
> kernel,
I know. A very unfortunate limitation. A bad decission, IMHO.
But I'm not knowledgeable enough to participate in those lists. I'm just
a... let's say, a power user.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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