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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 01:47:16 +0200 From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 23:19, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.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. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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