On 4/15/07, Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should we, as a community, take some steps to ensure best experience
> for our Susers ? (SUSE users) :)
> One thing that comes to mind, is to symlink (or even hardlink?) sda
> block devices to hda files, so that suser's transition will be
> transparent.
I really think this is a non-issue; there is a long existing solution
to this problem: LVM. Drives are scanned and assigned to volume groups
dynamically.
Use LVM.
> This will NOT solve the 15-partitions problem, but this *will* save
I strongly suspect that 15 partitions per drives is *extremely* rare.
Use LVM and you can carve up your disks as many ways as you want.
> all the fstabs, backup scripts and other system software from braking
> with a new openSUSE release. This should be made as a
> backward-compatibility measure.
LVM is a non-solution. It doesn't supports Windows interoperability.
Same goes for SoftRAID.
I need to stay Windows compatible.
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