Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007/02/20 12:44 (GMT-0500) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: > >> Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> IMO lvm is the only sane approach to handle that many filesystems. > >> Guys, do you really see this a limitation that will hit many of us? > > Consider the people who typically use more than 15 partitions per disk:
Really more than 15? Who has that? > 1-multibooters, and/or That must be a lot of distros. > 2-people who use partitions as all or part of their backup strategy And I'm sure those guys are not using SCSI, since then they would have the problems already for ages. So, how are people using nowadays SCSI solve that? > I'm not aware of any cross-platform LVM solution. And what OS-agnostic > alternative backup solution will SUSE offer? Are we going to say to these > people "sorry, find some other distro, SUSE's not for you"? Fedora and Red Hat will not be for them as well. They go the same road and use LVM by default. I expect others will follow as well, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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