Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> As for 3 this is a general problem of scsi disks. Wouldn't it be
> possible for the code that scans partitions to allocate device nodes
> dynamically for partitions >15 so that users with devfs or udev active
> would get additional device nodes created? Alternatively a userspace
> program could scan the partition block and create devices with the
> device mapper coresponding to each partition. Both aproaches would
> allow for >15 partition.
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.
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