Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> writes:
On 2007/02/20 15:06 (GMT+0100) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed:
Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> writes:
On 2007/02/20 12:44 (GMT-0500) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed:
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> writes:
IMO lvm is the only sane approach to handle that many filesystems.
Guys, do you really see this a limitation that will hit many of us?
Consider the people who typically use more than 15 partitions per disk:
Really more than 15? Who has that?
Besides me, couldn't tell you. At the end of this post are the partitions of my 5 most used systems: 1-this, which runs eComStation virtually 24/7; 2-my server, which runs 10.2 mostly; 3-5: various other systems, each of which has at least one installation of Factory and at least one other installation of some other SUSE version.
Wow, that's impressive - but I think extrem as well.
The disk with fewest has 23, which is the largest and newest I have. The longer they get used the more they get.
You could still use just two partitions per OS - one big LVM and a boot one.
1-multibooters, and/or
That must be a lot of distros.
???. Multiboot means the system has at least two partitions with one bootable OS per partition. That doesn't have a lot to do with how many partitions an OS will use, or a backup plan will use, or how many distros are or can be installed on a disk.
2-people who use partitions as all or part of their backup strategy
And I'm sure those guys are not using SCSI, since then they would have the problems already for ages. So, how are people using nowadays SCSI solve that?
I have no idea. Partly because of that problem I quit using SCSI for anything except non-disk peripherals or archives about 7 years ago.
I'm not aware of any cross-platform LVM solution. And what OS-agnostic alternative backup solution will SUSE offer? Are we going to say to these people "sorry, find some other distro, SUSE's not for you"?
Fedora and Red Hat will not be for them as well. They go the same road and use LVM by default. I expect others will follow as well,
Probably, but probably also some will figure out a way to not alienate those with well established backup routines that include logically segregating various file types. The need to multiboot will probably not escape many users for quite some time, even if it means using various virtual OS installations, another good reason for extra partitions.
The question is what can be done here. Automatic setup is complex :-( 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