Opinions about MAXIMUM_PARTS crippling in util-linux-2.11r-miscfixes.patch

[Alan Cox]

> My understanding is that this has been done to mask a bug in Microsoft 
> Windows 2000 which goes into infinite loop going back and forth 
> through the disk when it sees 16 or more partitions.

I dont know about that bit but Linux itself has limits based on the number
of allocated minor numbers with some devices. SCSI is one example.