-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-02-18 at 08:15 -0500, James Knott wrote:
While in some ways I agree with your sentiments, the question I have is what would you do if that was a SCSI drive? Wouldn't that limit still apply regardless?
Typically, scsi drives were smaller, and it was easier to add many drives (no limit of 4 drives per system).
You might consider using LVM as, IIRC, it's not affected by that limit.
But it forces to repartition the entire drive, and I don't feel LVM is as safe. One of the mains reasons of having many partition is damage contention, like the partitions on a ship. If you have a bad failure, the damage, or the worst damage, is limited to a partition. I have had my day saved more than once when I had a partition fully and irrecoverably lost. If I had everything on a single partition, I would have lost everything! My fear is that the LVM layer may remove that security. A problem in that layer could damage all partitions inside. I would need assurance, real assurance, that this is not the case. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuYj5tTMYHG2NR9URAk2CAJ0WI6TKIUzSkJR4U/27OmK6qJr44QCgl7xb IzKwnl6TbS4BznLkvl7W0f4= =lzkC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org