Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> writes:
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Woudln't it be better to give some choice? E.g. "Use kernel parameter ... (not recommended), use lvm" Are there any other fundamental choices?
IMO lvm is the only sane approach to handle that many filesystems.
Beside that, there is still kpartx (part of multipath-tools) which is able to create device mapper mappings for DOS partitions. I'm not sure though whenever it can handle more esoteric partition formats such as bsd slices.
But setting kpartx up automatically is a challenge. Guys, do you really see this a limitation that will hit many of us? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126