Changed names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of logical disks not accessible now

[Ivan Voras]

Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> Hi Marcel Moolenaar! 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:28:14 -0800; Marcel Moolenaar wrote about 'Re: Changed names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of logical disks not accessible now':
> 
>> In short: we just need to nail down what we're going to
>> fix, if we're going to fix anything, and understand the
>> consequences of our choice so that we can document it
>> or beter, avoid introducing new bugs in the process..
> 
> We want to fix POLA violation, i.e. make all that stuff behave as it always
> did before (primary from 1 to 4, logical slices from 5 to any). Nothing more,
> because doing something with MBR partitioning nowadays is not worth because
> GPT is already available (MBR is limited to 2 Tb, and disks are growing).

+1

The old behaviour needs to be restored, whatever the algorithm was. It
just isn't worth it to change it even if the change is theoretically for
the better.


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