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Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:59:57 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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On Sun, 10 May 2009 08:20:05 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:34:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 May 2009 09:19:23 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > >  We need to be able to support large number of partitions at boot
> > > time. 
> > 
> > I suspect that the intersection between (systems which need to shave
> > boot time to the minimum) and (systems which have lots of
> > partitions) is quite small?
> 
> No, not at all, lots of desktops have one or two disks with 15+
> partitions.  Those users want fast boot times as well.

if partitions > 15 don't have stable numbers surely we could fix
that....


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