On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:04:18 -0400, Bob S wrote:
Well, I think that you would be surprised Phillipp. There are certainly enough of us that we should be considered.
Did I say none? Or did I say those shouldn't be considered?
And why must we resort to "tricks" to gain the functionality that we had without "tricks".
As long as libata has a limit of 14, I'd say it's better to have a workaround that does indeed work then to have no possibility at all, wouldn't you agree? That's not to say that it wouldn't be better to have a way to lift that limit or at least raise that limit.
Tell me, what good is a 250 or 500 GB hard drive with only 14 partitions.
Oh, I can tell you why four 1 TB drives in a software RAID5 setup with essentially one partition makes sense :) This setup is used to mostly store TV recordings. For different Windows versions, Linux versions, OS/2 and Netware I use vmware and virtualbox.
run several different OS's (four) plus several different iterations of SuSE.
I do too, but I use virtualization and disk image files, serves most of my needs. Only situation that vm doesn't suffice is when I need good accelerated 3D graphics.
I like to try them all and experiment/compare them. I always make separate
partitions for /home, /tmp, /var, and /usr/local because I believe that is the smart way to do it.
There are pros and cons, but this IMHO mostly a matter of personal taste and thus not really something to discuss.
Now add the /swap and the /master partition and start to multiply.
/swap can be shared between different Linuxes (unless you want to be able to suspend to disc in all Linux versions). And out of interest, what's /master for?
Please don't get into the Microsoft mode of thinking that the latest (or previous) SuSE is all that you need or may want. Please don't be telling us what is best for us.
I did none of that, so why such a defensive mode?
Linux is about freedom.
Yes, but that includes the freedom of those that put together a distribution as to what they support. Linux, for instance, supports a wide range of architectures, yet openSUSE is only offered for a small subset. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org