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

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 18:55 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:32:53AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > upgrade to FC-7 flawlessly, if /dev/hdx accomodated more then 15 
> > partitions, then so should the new /dev/sdx when it becomes the new 
> > device for this disk.
> 
> Thats something you need to take upstream. I would also like to see it happen
> but previous patches to allow sparse minor numbers have always been vetoed by
> some of the fs maintainers.

when libata moves away from scsi this is easily solvable ;)

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