Alexey Eremenko wrote: > 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. > In what way is your linux partition setup "windows compatible"? I what way does LVM spoil your "Windows Compatibility"?
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