-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-07-18 at 09:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/07/18 15:36 (GMT+0200) Philipp Thomas apparently typed:
* Carlos E. R. () [20080718 15:09]:
So if you want to protest, do it upstreams on lkml.
I wouldn't know where. Do they have a bugzilla?
I think not.
Of course it does: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
I'll have to think of it. If there is such a feature request I'll add my vote. I'm not happy about opening one myself there, as I don't know the "language", and I don't test kernels. I would rather prefer suse to represent its users in all flavors.
It's *not* arbirary!
Yes, it is arbitrary. The HD hardware/firmware can hold thousands of partitions, there is no limit.
AFAIR, the PC BIOS specification only knows of a maximum of 8 boot devices (0x80-0x87), that's also arbitrary.
I'm pretty sure his use of arbitrary was meant to apply to the decision to terminate direct kernel support for previously supported devices.
Exactly. We had 64 partitions, now we have 16 (14). And the decission to support 8, 16, 255 whatever partitions is also arbitrary. If a limit must be had, then choose one more than big enough. It is only big enough to those that do not use partitions. We should have a large limit on the number of disks and the number of partitions. Freedom.
With 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.
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