On 1/18/2012 10:17 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Ideally there should be a function allowing to know how many entries > this table has. > If kernel API is unmodifiable and has inherent limit IMHO the best > strategy is to make this limit pertain only to kernel-specific parts.
There are. There is one to get the max allowed by the kernel, and one to get the max allowed by the partition table. The problem I fixed is that the dos partition table claimed to only allow 16 so when you exceeded the limit, the kernel wouldn't get updated. There has to be a limit somewhere and it needs to actually be enforced to prevent the problem updating the kernel. Of course, until rather recently the kernel limit was also 16. > I'll see when I can get an appointment with the doctor. I've had > problems with hitting those limits when I created ultra-multi-boot disk You've created 64 partitions on a disk? Maybe you should switch to gpt? Even that only gets you twice as many -- 128, or better yet, use LVM. I don't see a problem with raising the limit further than 64 if you really think it's needed.
