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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:14:27 +0200
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>,
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Subject: Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing
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On 2003-04-03T02:09:48,
   David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> said:

> when you think of huge raid arrays that present themselves to the system
> as a single drive even 64 partitions can be limiting.

That's what logical volume management is for. Problem solved.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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