Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:37:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> > No, theres lots of code in kernelspace that assumes a partitioned disk
> > has a block of minors. Use a volume manager instead of traditional
> > partitions if you need more than 15 subdivions of a disk.
>
> Ide disks have a block of 64 minors per disk, scsi only 16. So it
> can't be hardcoded that much.
You misunderstand. The problem is the assumption that all minors per
disc are contiguous (in a single block). This is fairly fundamental
and difficult to change. I tried to do it and gave up.
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