On 2007/08/24 14:41 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed:

> "Carlos E. R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Is there any hope of increasing the 16 partition limit some time in the 
>> future?

> No -

Because it's a kernel design issue, something SUSE/Novell has little or no
control over.

> but we added a workaround for this.  If you have more than 16
> partitions, just give it a try!

brokenmodules=ata_piix? If not, what, and where documented?

>> Alternatively, will the ata support remain for ever, with maintenance?

> I guess for 10.4, we will remove it.

Sounds ominous.

>> I have disks with 20 partitions. I suspect I'm not the only one using more 
>> than 16 partitions.

> So, please test whether it our workaround makes you happy ;-)

I have disks approaching the 63 PATA partition count limit.

A related issue is optional mounts. When exist upwards of 30 lines in fstab,
with labels or worse for partition identification, it's a new and large
headache to figure out what to type to mount partitions that are noauto in
fstab. When using devicenames of 4-5 characters this was minor thing to 
remember.
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