On 2007/08/24 14:41 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed:
"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> writes:
Is there any hope of increasing the 16 partition limit some time in the future?
No -
Because it's a kernel design issue, something SUSE/Novell has little or no control over.
but we added a workaround for this. If you have more than 16 partitions, just give it a try!
brokenmodules=ata_piix? If not, what, and where documented?
Alternatively, will the ata support remain for ever, with maintenance?
I guess for 10.4, we will remove it.
Sounds ominous.
I have disks with 20 partitions. I suspect I'm not the only one using more than 16 partitions.
So, please test whether it our workaround makes you happy ;-)
I have disks approaching the 63 PATA partition count limit. A related issue is optional mounts. When exist upwards of 30 lines in fstab, with labels or worse for partition identification, it's a new and large headache to figure out what to type to mount partitions that are noauto in fstab. When using devicenames of 4-5 characters this was minor thing to remember. -- " It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org