Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Woudln't it be better to give some choice? E.g. "Use kernel parameter >> ... (not recommended), use lvm" Are there any other fundamental choices? > > IMO lvm is the only sane approach to handle that many filesystems. > > Beside that, there is still kpartx (part of multipath-tools) which is > able to create device mapper mappings for DOS partitions. I'm not sure > though whenever it can handle more esoteric partition formats such as > bsd slices.
But setting kpartx up automatically is a challenge. Guys, do you really see this a limitation that will hit many of us? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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