On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 02:05:51PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> >
> > Followup to: <20000407210959.A6098@win.tue.nl>
> > By author: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
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> >
> > Shouldn't this be handled by the partition-detection code anyhow
> > (/proc/partitions et al)?
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> Probably, but this would mean putting more code into the 2.4 release. I
> looked at the partition stuff in genhd.c - it should go here -- except
> for one point. NWFS does not share the Unix limitation of "one
> partition - one file system tree".
Yep. This is a good thing[tm].
Please look at the linux-lvm page to find a better solution:
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/
> NetWare volumes stripe segments
> across multiple drives, and for some reason, this seems strange to
> Linux. Linux always seems to assume that
[x] you want lvm
Christoph
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