Opinions about MAXIMUM_PARTS crippling in util-linux-2.11r-miscfixes.patch
Wojtek Pilorz
wpilorz at bdk.pl
Mon Sep 8 12:26:54 UTC 2003
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello Wojtek,
>
> > My understanding is that this has been done to mask a bug in Microsoft
> > Windows 2000 which goes into infinite loop going back and forth through the
> > disk when it sees 16 or more partitions.
>
> The limit is up to and including 16 partitions (if you count the extended
> partition as one as well).
>
> My understanding is this has to do with the fact that SCSI can't handle
> more than 15 (16 if you count the extended partition as well) partitions.
> See the original comment in util-linux-2.11r-miscfixes.patch.
Thank you for explanation; I should have checked source first and I cant
see the logic you mention, too.
>
> I would also be happy if we got rid of this limitation, but since SCSI
> disks seem to require it logic needs to be added to distinguish between
> SCSI and IDE disks. Afaict this logic is currently not there, and I guess
> that is why Red Hat chose to take the safe maximum of 16 partitions. So I
> guess for now you just have to patch the patches and rebuild util-linux
> yourself.
Would something so simple as to check whether the name specified matches
.*/hd[a-l] and only then allow up to 60 partitions would be acceptable for
inclusion in RHL?
>
> Bye,
> Leonard.
>
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>
Best regards,
Wojtek
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