> Should we, as a community, take some steps to ensure best experience > for our Susers ? (SUSE users) :) > One thing that comes to mind, is to symlink (or even hardlink?) sda > block devices to hda files, so that suser's transition will be > transparent.
I really think this is a non-issue; there is a long existing solution to this problem: LVM. Drives are scanned and assigned to volume groups dynamically. Use LVM. > This will NOT solve the 15-partitions problem, but this *will* save I strongly suspect that 15 partitions per drives is *extremely* rare. Use LVM and you can carve up your disks as many ways as you want. > all the fstabs, backup scripts and other system software from braking > with a new openSUSE release. This should be made as a > backward-compatibility measure. -- -- Adam Tauno Williams Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]