From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 32bit dev_t
Date: 21 Jan 2003 22:33:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1043188385.1384.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E2DBBAD.80206@mvista.com>
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 21:29, Steven Dake wrote:
> Joel,
>
> Linux doesn't really need a 32 bit kdev_t structure to support 1000
> disks. There is plenty of device space available to support over 1500
> disks by modifying the linux scsi layer.
You run out of assigned major/minor numbers. There is a sick hack that
steals other device idents but thats not usable in a production environment.
32bit dev_t IMHO is essential to 2.6. Essential enough that if its not in
the base 2.6 all the vendors have to get together and issue a Linus
incompatible but common 32bit dev_t interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-21 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-21 19:50 Joel Becker
2003-01-21 21:29 ` Steven Dake
2003-01-21 21:56 ` Joel Becker
2003-01-21 22:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-21 22:33 ` Alan [this message]
2003-01-24 22:04 Andries.Brouwer
2003-01-25 1:51 ` Joel Becker
2003-02-03 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
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