-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-08-24 at 13:44 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
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.
Well, they can assign developers to scsi and develop patches that add support for more than 16 partitions to scsi modules. If technically possible, of course (I don't know what is the origin of that limit). Or invent something different than scsi for both scsi and ata.
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.
Quite so!
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.
And I thought I had a lot... :-o
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.
Could you give a sample? I don't understand the issue (I do have long fstab files) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGzyD0tTMYHG2NR9URAlkrAJ4p/0Sz1+T+wdul9vSscM/W9sU+UACghE7/ Y2ftshrTxF9ViOtC7MeO0v8= =oSq+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org