On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 11:27 PM, Ethan Benson wrote:
i don't know for sure, but i know of people who have been running with
more then 15 partitions. i don't have a spare IDE disk to test with.
Just a quick follow up.
I have been in touch with Eryk Vershen, author of pdisk, to seek his input
on whether or not the fifteen-partition limit still applies.
Eryk is unable to shed any further light on the current status of the bug
causing the problem, although he has the impression that it applied to
versions of both the Linux and Mach kernels. He suggests we would need to
get one of the kernel hackers to check with certainty specifically which
versions are/were affected. (...Any takers? :-).
Interestingly, he believes that the problem would apply equally to both
SCSI and IDE disks since (by his recollection) the the partitioning code
is implemented at a layer above the drivers and so would likely be the
same for both drive types.
FWIW,
-R.