Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756750AbXJISPr (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:15:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752776AbXJISPj (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:15:39 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:50360 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752805AbXJISPi (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:15:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:15:37 -0400 To: Bill Davidsen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Alan Cox , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [code] Unlimited partitions, a try Message-ID: <20071009181537.GE4003@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <4706B6A8.2060800@zytor.com> <20071006002919.0b32c8b9@the-village.bc.nu> <4706C8BD.7080906@zytor.com> <4707E327.4020607@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4707E327.4020607@tmr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 16 On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:33:59PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm not sure that configurations requiring more than 15 partitions are > properly described as "trivial." Which is not to disagree with your > point about required user tools, but most systems needing such tools > will be large and complex enough that a userspace solution will be > acceptable. And there is LVM too, which seems better than partitions in many cases. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/