Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/15/07, Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Should we, as a community, take some steps to ensure best experience
> > for our Susers ? (SUSE users) :)
> > One thing that comes to mind, is to symlink (or even hardlink?) sda
> > block devices to hda files, so that suser's transition will be
> > transparent.
>
> I really think this is a non-issue;  there is a long existing solution
> to this problem: LVM.  Drives are scanned and assigned to volume groups
> dynamically.
>
> Use LVM.
>
> > This will NOT solve the 15-partitions problem, but this *will* save
>
> I strongly suspect that 15 partitions per drives is *extremely* rare.
>
> Use LVM and you can carve up your disks as many ways as you want.
>
> > all the fstabs, backup scripts and other system software from braking
> > with a new openSUSE release. This should be made as a
> > backward-compatibility measure.

LVM is a non-solution. It doesn't supports Windows interoperability.
Same goes for SoftRAID.
I need to stay Windows compatible.

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-Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
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