Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007/02/20 15:06 (GMT+0100) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: > >> 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? > > Besides me, couldn't tell you. At the end of this post are the > partitions of my 5 most used systems: 1-this, which runs eComStation > virtually 24/7; 2-my server, which runs 10.2 mostly; 3-5: various > other systems, each of which has at least one installation of Factory > and at least one other installation of some other SUSE version.
Wow, that's impressive - but I think extrem as well. > The disk with fewest has 23, which is the largest and newest I have. The > longer they get used the more they get. You could still use just two partitions per OS - one big LVM and a boot one. >>> 1-multibooters, and/or > >> That must be a lot of distros. > > ???. Multiboot means the system has at least two partitions with one > bootable OS per partition. That doesn't have a lot to do with how many > partitions an OS will use, or a backup plan will use, or how many > distros are or can be installed on a disk. > >>> 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 have no idea. Partly because of that problem I quit using SCSI for > anything except non-disk peripherals or archives about 7 years ago. > >>> 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, > > Probably, but probably also some will figure out a way to not alienate > those with well established backup routines that include logically > segregating various file types. The need to multiboot will probably not > escape many users for quite some time, even if it means using various > virtual OS installations, another good reason for extra partitions. The question is what can be done here. Automatic setup is complex :-( 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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