On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As for 3 this is a general problem of scsi disks. Wouldn't it be > possible for the code that scans partitions to allocate device nodes > dynamically for partitions >15 so that users with devfs or udev active > would get additional device nodes created? Alternatively a userspace > program could scan the partition block and create devices with the > device mapper coresponding to each partition. Both aproaches would > allow for >15 partition.
No, theres lots of code in kernelspace that assumes a partitioned disk has a block of minors. Use a volume manager instead of traditional partitions if you need more than 15 subdivions of a disk.
