Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/20 21:00 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: > Felix Miata wr0te: >> On 2007/09/20 00:44 (GMT-0600) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently typed: >>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218122 >>> --- Comment #25 from Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-09-20 >>> 00:44:01

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-20 Thread Juan Erbes
2007/9/20, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If you > > want that, then use LVM. > > That may be fine for most people, as that's apparently what the kernel > developers expect, as well as the only offering for Fedora users. It's not so > good for people with a tried and true multiboot creation,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/20 19:34 (GMT-0300) Juan Erbes apparently typed: > 2007/9/20, Felix Miata wrote: >> Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> > If you >> > want that, then use LVM. >> That may be fine for most people, as that's apparently what the kernel >> developers expect, as well as the only offering for Fedora

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-20 Thread Juan Erbes
2007/9/20, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2007/09/20 19:34 (GMT-0300) Juan Erbes apparently typed: > > > 2007/9/20, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > >> > If you > >> > want that, then use LVM. > > >> That may be fine for most people, as that's apparently what the kernel >

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-09-20 at 19:37 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Additional safety of more disks unless using RAID is an illusion, and then > with RAID you're right back to the limit of 14. To get 28 and safety means > you need 4 disks: 2 for each set of

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-21 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A SATA system with > 15 partitions was never ever supported! > > I well understand that. However > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218122 summary says "Support more > than 15 partitions on libata", not "Support more than 15 partitions on PATA

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-21 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-09-21 at 10:02 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: ... > More than 15 are supported with LVM since ages. The problem we're > talking about is migration - and therefore the bug is called on libata. > Seeing your confusion, I guess it should

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-21 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/21 10:02 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: > I guess you should > start this discussion on the ... libata > development list. I don't see any such list on http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists and Google doesn't seem to be able to find one for me elsewhere. Do you have subscripti

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-22 Thread Juan Erbes
2007/9/21, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2007/09/21 10:02 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: > > > I guess you should > > start this discussion on the ... libata > > development list. > > I don't see any such list on http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists and Google > doesn't seem to be

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/22 09:32 (GMT-0400) Juan Erbes apparently typed: > 2007/9/21, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 2007/09/21 10:02 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: >> > I guess you should >> > start this discussion on the ... libata >> > development list. >> I don't see any such list o

Re: [opensuse-factory] Support more than 15 partitions on libata

2007-09-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/21 04:02 (GMT-0400) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: > * Use some hacks with devicemapper to support more than 15 partitions. > Bug 218122 is one such hack. We wanted to use it for the migration > issue. It was not intented for new installations - for those, please > use LVM! I