On 2008/07/18 19:03 (GMT+0200) Philipp Thomas apparently typed:
* Felix Miata (mrmazda@ij.net) [20080718 15:53]:
I'm pretty sure his use of arbitrary was meant to apply to the decision to terminate direct kernel support for previously supported devices.
But that decision was made upstreams and we try to be as close as possible to the mainstream kernel in order to minimize the maintenance effort.
Granted, the more enlightened among us understand it was purely kernel dev fiat over which SUSE/Novell had no control
libata, that support must now come from userland in the form of dm/kpartx, but it seems that doesn't yet work for any but a select few developers, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397816 being one manifestation of failure by mere mortal users.
Lets begin by stating that developers are mere mortals too :) And I didn't know it still doesn't work :( If that is so, there currently is no solution and that is indeed a bad thing.
I think Hannes is on track to have us a fix before long. I thought he had it 3 days ago, but either he or I screwed up, and I'd be little surprised if it was me.
So Users with such disks have to stay with older distributions, which I'd have to agree isn't really satisfying.
For the time being, that's not actually necessary. Unlike SMBFS, legacy IDE didn't get stripped from kernel sources prior to replacement by an as yet uncapable successor. So, some more enlightened distros, like *SUSE*, retain the legacy drivers in their release kernels, and make it possible at install time to prefer them to libata. I think most partition limit complaints are from those who don't catch that fact in the release notes, those who pick an unenlightened distro (Fedora & Ubuntu among them), and those with newer systems for which legacy IDE is not compatible with their hardware. -- "Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry." Ephesians 4:26 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org