[opensuse] Re: the new openSUSE kernel and the IDE

Alexey Eremenko wrote:

On 4/15/07, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

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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.

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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.

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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.

In what way is your linux partition setup "windows compatible"? I what way does LVM spoil your "Windows Compatibility"? regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org