From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 32bit dev_t
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:21:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030121222101.GA1353@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030121215602.GI20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:56:02PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:29:17PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> > 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.
>
> First, that's an approach that removes space from other devices.
> In addition, I suspect we'll see 2000 disk systems before we see 2.8.
Of course, we know the solution is /dev/disk, as mentioned by Linus at
least a couple times, which eliminates a lot of dev_t limitation
issues... :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-21 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-21 19:50 32bit dev_t Joel Becker
2003-01-21 21:29 ` Steven Dake
2003-01-21 21:56 ` Joel Becker
2003-01-21 22:21 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-01-21 22:33 ` Alan
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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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