On Wednesday 16 July 2008 11:59:53 pm Philipp Thomas wrote:
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.
Hello Phillipp, I really don't know why I am bothering to answer this. You are very difficult to convince when you have your mind made up.
Did I say none? Or did I say those shouldn't be considered?
No you didn't. Not directly. Here is what you said," Though I personally doubt that there are many users that really need more then that." It is in the contest of your statement.
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.
Yes you're right. It would be better to have a work-around, To use "tricks", because what was done, is done. period! The point is that these things were done unnecessarily and without consideration. ie: arbitrarily.
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,
Makes sense to me for those "specialized" uses. That's not me though, nor many on this list.
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.
So what you are saying is that we should run our systems via the gospel of Phillipp.
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.
It is a matter for discussion if that is a matter of preference or personal taste. An arbitrary decision now dictates the way we must run our systems.
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).
As a matter of fact I do share swap between some OS's. Now we are nit-picking.
And out of interest, what's /master for?
OK the "/" partition. The one where you install everything.
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?
No you haven't directly. It is your opinions which are espoused to be the truth revealed. You are the one who is defensive of some bad or unpopular decisions. I have been on this list for many many years. You have never seen me arbitrarily post my opinions as a rant for the sake of a rant. You are responding to something I posted as a problem with an explanation of the problem. Am I upset about it? Yes, of course, from the very beginning, over something that was arbitrary and uncalled for.
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.
And I agree that the devs should have the freedom to make decisions, after all they are the ones doing the work. And their work is appreciated by me and many others, but Ido think that they should consider the consequences of those decisions,or at least seek input from the community, especially with something as radical as this. Maybe not radical to you, but radical to many in the community. That's all I have to say. No more from me about this. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org