The case against LVM

[Alan Cox]

> From what I understand, there are a max of 16 device entries created
> for a SCSI hard drive. (sdx and sdx1 through sdx15) So while you can
> have more partitions then that, Linux will not let you access them
> when using the SCSI code to access the drive. I believe it is a
> driver problem more then a udev problem.

You can do it with device mapper but not the kernel partition code. Its
easy enough to fix but certain people refuse to accept the sane way to
fix it