From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Too many disks in system? (RAID5)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:22:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438CAA7B.2030500@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051128223623.GA3803@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:25:58PM +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have system with attached SATA array which contains 24 disks. I wanted to run
>>software RAID 5, but 24 disks means, that I would need /dev/sda to /dev/sdx
>>devices with major 8 and last minor 384. Minor seems to be limited to 8 bits.
>>Is there any chance to run software array using all 24 disks?
>>
>>My test was with mknod v. 5.2.1 and kernel 2.6.14.3
>
>
> Major 8 is not the only scsi major. Look at devices.txt in the kernel
> Documentation dir. MAKEDEV also usually knows how to make more scsi
> devices. For example major 65. Just use MAKEDEV /dev/sdx and see what
> it creates.
Does udev not know how to handle this?
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-29 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-28 22:25 Too many disks in system? (RAID5) Lukas Hejtmanek
2005-11-28 22:36 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-11-29 19:22 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-11-29 22:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-11-30 15:34 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-11-30 15:47 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-12-02 16:37 ` Bill Davidsen
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