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

[James Olin Oden]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> Hello James,
> 
> > Don't care about the user, I want the fdisk program to allow the maximum
> > partitions on a per drive basis.
> 
>  The problem is MAXIMUM_PARTS is a constant, and the length of some arrays 
> are based on this constant. This means you would also have to introduce a 
> variable maximum_parts to use in equations.
>
Sounds like that is fairly doable.  I might have time this week to look 
into this. 

>  If we follow the number of device nodes logic MAXIMUM_PARTS should be 0, 
> because currently I can create 16 partitions on a floppy disk of which I 
> can use none, due to the fact that there are no device nodes available.
>
0-;

Thanks...james 
 
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> Leonard.
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