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

Leonard den Ottolander leonardjo at hetnet.nl
Tue Sep 9 12:07:37 UTC 2003


Hi David,

> There are also only 32 IDE
> device files created by default on Red Hat Linux

 This used to be 16 until 7.0. No idea why the 16 extra device nodes were 
added, since it looks like Red Hat doesn't want to support IDE disks with 
more than 16 partitions. Kinda contradictory.

Bye,
Leonard.

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