On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 20:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > 2. SCSI does not limit LUNs to 16. > > I said _Fedora_ limits the number of SCSI partitions > on a single SCSI disk to 16. Yes, that's true. > > There may well be a way to modify this, > but it is not available during a standard Fedora installation. It would take a recompile of the kernel. > > 3. 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). Because Fedora is designed for PC-style hardware. If you install it on a SPARC, for example, that rule doesn't apply. > > 4. 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. I was trying to elucidate the differences between the restrictions placed on it by the PC hardware and what the actual disk is capable of. Sorry if I confused people. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "People tell me I look at the dark side. That's not true. I have - - the heart of a small boy......in a jar right here on my desk." - - -- Stephen King - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
