Re: The case against LVM

[Timothy Murphy]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> SCSI does not limit LUNs to 16.

I said _Fedora_ limits the number of SCSI partitions
on a single SCSI disk to 16.

There may well be a way to modify this,
but it is not available during a standard Fedora installation.
> Again, the 4 primary partition thing is an artifact from the PC BIOS.
>
> There are systems that use a totally different partitioning scheme.  The
> disks themselves don't give a toss.

But _Fedora_ standard installation limits each disk to 4 primary partitions
(even though this makes no sense when applied to SCSI disks).
> The virtual partitions inside a primary extended partition are not
>
> limited to 24 or whatever someone said earlier...that's an artifact of
> the DOS/Windows limiting of hard drive letters to c: through z:.
> There's nothing in the spec that says 24's the limit.

I don't think anyone is talking about SCSI specs, except you.
Everyone else is talking about Fedora.