Re: [opensuse] libata partition limit Bob S wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 09:37:03 am Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2008/02/17 23:49 (GMT-0500) Bob S apparently typed:
>>> Yeah, when they made the switch there were a bunch of us screaming about
>>> the partition limitation.  We were told, "Don't Worry" that will be
>>> fixed.  I've got half of a 250 GB disk that I wanted to install SUSE 11
>>> on but only three partitions.  That ain't gonna work!
>> The kernel devs apparently think lvm and dm are able to provide solutions,
>> that it isn't the job of the kernel to provide backward compatibility for
>> upgrading systems that already have partitions >15. :-(
>>
> Nice of the kernel devs to decide what is best for all of us.

Yeah.  Someone needs to dust off the clue-bat.

> 
>>> Has anybody heard anything??  Somebody really working on it?
>> Rumour has it Device Mapper has the capability, but no pointer to
>> comprehensible docs on how to use dm for the purpose have crossed my path.
>> --
> So here we sit. Guys like Carlos and I with big drives several OS's and no 
> space to use those big drives in a proper, useful and safe manner. I have 125 
> GB of free space and two partitions to put 11.0 on. I really don't think 
> anyone cares and they do whatever they want without considering the 
> consequences. It really ticked me off when all of my drives were renumbered.
> 
> Please Joe, If you come across a solution please let this list know.

There's a reason I still have 4 actual SCSI hard drives in my
system.  And I would have 2 more SCSI optical drives, too, if
it weren't for a shortage of PCI slots -- i'm not putting those
8-bit single-ended SCSI-2 drives on the same bus as my 16-bit
LVD SCSI-3 drives...and having the SCSI-3 drives hampered by
adapting to being on the same bus as single-ended drives.


In the long term...I don't know what I'm going to do if they don't
get this all straightened out.

And I'm not sure that I'm all too enthused about these new
motherboards.  Hell, I'm still annoyed by the industry's
decision to reduce the maximum number of card-slots on case
and motherboard from 8 to 7.  The last incarnation of my
desktop machine had all 7 slots used, and I would have used
an 8th if only an 8th slot were available.


