Felix Miata wrote: >> distro which uses libata now and in near future. If the dynamic >> partition thing goes well, hopefully the next major distro releases work >> fine. > > I responded as I did due to your statement "only problem I can foresee is not > being able to specify MAJ:MIN as root device", hoping to see some elaboration > on the statement from you. I read your statement as "don't expect to be able > to use any partition >15 as a root device". So, in the past root=3:17 would > have been a valid replacement for root =/dev/hda17? If so, sorry for the > noise, as I'd never seen that type of usage, and certainly would not miss it. Oh.. the name, say, root=/dev/sda999 should work (well, that's the plan) but as there will be no fixed mapping between /dev/sdaN and MAJ:MIN when N > 15, root=MAJ:MIN just isn't possible for dynamically allocated ones. I hope it clarified things a bit. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
