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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:11:01 +0200
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> > Now let's be conservative and assume 16KB unswappable memory
> > per task. Now we take the famous 4000 disk case. 64MB. A lot
> > but probably not deadly. But multiply this by 15 and the machine is
> > absolutely dead.
>
> Ok, then the "Enterprise Edition" of the distros that expect to handle
> 4000 disks will have to add the following patch to their version of the
> hotplug package.
>
> In the meantime, the other 99% of current Linux users will exist just
> fine :)

Well, for a little elegance you might introduce subdirectories for each type
of hotplug event and use only them.

	Regards
		Oliver