On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 08:32 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 17:57 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> With the change from traditional /dev/hd* type device nodes to /dev/sd* > >> type nodes, I see that the highest partition number that can be used is > >> 15. Will this change so that higher numbers will be available? I do > >> have a system that has a drive with almost 30 small partitions used in a > >> research effort and the number of partitions has not been an issue thru fc6. > >> > >> -- > > > > Use LVM. > > Trust me. > > You won't be sorry. > > > > Use lvm is not the answer, if this was possible before the system should > upgrade to FC-7 flawlessly, if /dev/hdx accomodated more then 15 > partitions, then so should the new /dev/sdx when it becomes the new > device for this disk. > > Regards, > > Hans > Short answer: Use LVM! Long answer: Asking the kernel hackers to risk breaking compatibility inside inside the SCSI layer [1] and break God-knows-how-many-different-user-land-applications just to handle a 0.001% end case that can be handled differently (disable libata, use LVM), is pure madness. You can argue the it should be possible to disable libata in special end-cases such as the OP's case (and I'll second your motion), but that's another matter altogether. - Gilboa [1] I'm not very familiar with the partition/fs code, but something tells me the 16x minor->physical ID translation is hard coded everywhere. Plus, increasing the number of partitions to 63 will reduce the number of possible SCSI drives to 8 (?? I'm not sure. should be 512/64) and there are many people (including myself) that have more then 8 SCSI/SATA drives configurations running software RAID5/6. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
