New device drivers don't see beyond 15 partitions in fc7

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > With the change from traditional /dev/hd* type device nodes to /dev/sd* 
 > type nodes, I see that the highest partition number that can be used is 
 > 15.  Will this change so that higher numbers will be available?  I do 
 > have a system that has a drive with almost 30 small partitions used in a 
 > research effort and the number of partitions has not been an issue thru fc6.

afaik, The only way to achieve > 15 "partitions" per disk with /dev/sd* is to
use device mapper.  I'm not sure the upper limit of logical volumes
per PV, but I'm fairly sure it's higher than 15.

		Dave

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