-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-05-26 at 18:02 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
What happened to the idea of using the device-mapper for accessing these many partitions? I tried that out a a while ago, it works fine.
I have no idea at all. The last news I read about this, months ago, was that it wasn't feasible, and the proponents of this solution (in the bugzilla where we were talking this) failed to clarify and explain a method to do that for plain users.
Oh well. I tried it very quickly and it worked just fine. I can't see any immediate reason why it couldn't be supported at installation time - the installation system already uses the devicemapper for various support.
I haven't seen a document explaining it. Is it supported by Yast installer/updater?
Do you happen to know which report this was discussed in?
It was dropped in 305095#32 * Bug 218122 - Support more than 15 partitions on libata Opened: 2006-11-03 21:51 MDT Last modified: 2007-09-21 07:31:06 MDT It proposes using dm_linear. Not conclusive. * Bug 305095 - CD-Installation fails when partitions >15 are involved Opened: 2007-08-27 18:23 MDT Last modified: 2007-09-18 09:50:59 MDT - use hwprobe=-modules.pata - #9: proposes using dm_linear, (this) "will invoke kpartx which in turn will generate device-mapper tables for all partitions on that drive" - activate_dm_linear - #32 says: "the activate_dm_linear support does not work as documented. This needs some more work for 11.0." (AJ). I know no more about this. * Bug 309070 - Install impossible in a pata system with more than 16 partitions. Opened: 2007-09-09 11:20 MDT Last modified: 2007-09-10 09:39:17 MDT - proposes to use dm_linear. No instructions. - suggest to change to minor numbers over 255, which is the real hurdle. Those are my sources of information: basically I know no more. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIOxNwtTMYHG2NR9URAsy/AJ9i3CpdFrKohC6h4Sadf5ppy42cBQCggOh+ tHPUgN1zEI5JO9fc836xLzc= =KP8L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org