Re: [opensuse] libata partition limit (was: ext3 check forced = frustration)
- From: "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:50:40 -0500
On Feb 19, 2008 12:18 AM, Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008 09:37:03 am Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/02/17 23:49 (GMT-0500) Bob S apparently typed:Nice of the kernel devs to decide what is best for all of us.
Yeah, when they made the switch there were a bunch of us screaming about
the partition limitation. We were told, "Don't Worry" that will be
fixed. I've got half of a 250 GB disk that I wanted to install SUSE 11
on but only three partitions. That ain't gonna work!
The kernel devs apparently think lvm and dm are able to provide solutions,
that it isn't the job of the kernel to provide backward compatibility for
upgrading systems that already have partitions >15. :-(
At least for now YOU are in control, not the kernel devs.
They have taken nothing away and the traditional IDE drivers are being
very actively supported. Suse has them in their kernels for 10.3
(11.0 I don't know about).
The kernel devs added a parallel development track a copy years ago,
so now there are 2 drivers for the vast majority of PATA (IDE)
controllers. It is YOUR choice whether you use the traditional set or
the new set, nobody else is making decisions for you.
So if you don't like the new way, use the old one. (As described in
the release notes from day one.)
Obviously, SUSE (Novell) had to make a choice of what the default
driver set for 10.3 should be. They choose the leading edge set.
That is pretty consistent with the opensuse philosophy from what I've
seen. I for one am very happy to see them moving forward, and if I
need extra partitions, I can add a boot flag, update my grub setup,
and fstab entries.
I really don't understand the gripping about 10.3 in this respect. If
suse ever drops the traditional drivers/ide support, that is the time
to complain. And those complaints should occur during the alpha/beta
process, not 6 months after the product is released.
Greg
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