From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [code] Unlimited partitions, a try
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 00:29:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071006002919.0b32c8b9@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4706B6A8.2060800@zytor.com>
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:11:52 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 15 partitions (at least for sd_mod devices) are too few.
>
> Now when we have 20-bit minors, can't we simply recycle some of the
> higher bits for additional partitions, across the board? 63 partitions
> seem to have been sufficient; at least I haven't heard anyone complain
> about that for 15 years.
This was proposed ages ago. Al Viro vetoed sparse minors and it has been
stuck this way ever since. If you have > 15 partitions use device mapper
for it. I'd prefer it fixed but its arguable that device mapper is the
right way to punt all our partitioning to userspace
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-05 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-05 11:50 Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 22:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-05 22:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-05 23:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-10-05 23:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-06 19:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-09 18:15 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-06 8:36 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
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