Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Mon, 11 May 2009 01:47:16 +0200 | Subject | Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches |
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On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 23:19, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> /me boggles, however does one end up with that many partitions on so few >> disks? > > It happens. Tejun did the extending because libata users were really > hitting these limits. > >> /boot >> / >> /home >> /usr >> swap >> /usr/local >> /opt >> >> and I'm seriously out of sensible ideas. > > I've seen two usual variants > > Fedora & Unbuntu & Debian & .... > > Fedora 10 & Rawhide & Fedora 9 & ... > > for people who like to play with distros or need to test a product on them > > and once you do that 16 is quite easy
That's right. Also people with virtualization, running many guest from individual partitions, like to do that - and 16 is nothing for them. :)
Some of us run the dynamic sd minors already, and it's not unlikely we will enable it pretty soon for the distro.
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