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From: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 32bit dev_t
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:29:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2DBBAD.80206@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030121195041.GE20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>

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.

Thanks
-steve

Joel Becker wrote:

>Folks,
>	Who is tracking the 32bit dev_t effort for 2.5?  There are
>already existing installations with 500 to 1000 disks attached to a
>system, and I don't know that Linux really wants to wait four years to
>get there!
>	If someone could point me to a current patch or any current
>information about the issues, I'd really appreciate it.
>
>Joel
>
>  
>


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-21 21:23 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 [this message]
2003-01-21 21:56   ` Joel Becker
2003-01-21 22:21     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-21 22:33   ` Alan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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