-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-07-18 at 12:43 +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:
- Bob S () [20080718 04:24]:
The point is that these things were done unnecessarily and without consideration. ie: arbitrarily.
They definitely weren't done unnecessarily and I doubt they were done without consideration! libATA was developed to offer a ATA driver API, class transports for ATA and ATAPI devices, and SCSI/ATA translation for ATA devices. It seems that the SCSI limitations didn't concern the developers or weren't seen critical. After a time, the upstream kernel developers decided to not only support SATA controllers but also ATA ones, I guess in order to unify the API and concentrate maintenance on one set of drivers.
Scsi didn't traditionally need more partitions because the disks were smaller.
So if you want to protest, do it upstreams on lkml.
I wouldn't know where. Do they have a bugzilla?
An arbitrary decision now dictates the way we must run our systems.
It's *not* arbirary!
Yes, it is arbitrary. The HD hardware/firmware can hold thousands of partitions, there is no limit. The limitation is in software, in the way used to distribute the major/minor number over 8 bits in unix/linux, or in the available letters of the alphabet in windows. That is arbitrary by definition. Like "1 megabyte is enough". What will you do with peta storage, put it all in the same partition?
I'd really be interested in a survey as to how many people really do need/use more then those 16 partitions!
Yes, me too. (And it is not 16, it is 14) Novell sometimes does surveys. They did one on disks not long ago, and they forgot to ask this question. Now they are doing another one on 11.0, and again some of the questions are wrong. They should better post a sample of the intended survey, ask for comments, adjust the questions properly, then go ahead with it. And create the survey in several languages, too. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIgJXutTMYHG2NR9URAmqgAJ0UheTarfOMOluoEZcBTtWwsWeUGwCglvCx 8FcHhcqK6qU2x3iCneaue4c= =5ktW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org