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Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH] dynamic creation/removal more then 256 drbd
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Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 11:06:40 +0200
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Am Freitag, 27. April 2007 11:21 schrieb Stanislaw Gruszka:
> Hallo,
>
> I did patch for dynamic creation/removal drbd devices.
> Drbd have already dynamic drbd creation, but no removal.
> Also my patch breaks limit of 256 drbd devices - linked list
> is used for keeping devices; minor_table is removed,
> idr structure form include/linux/idr.h is used instead.
> Please comment. Is there a chance it will be applied?
>
> Patch is divided into 2 parts: kernel and user space.

Hi Stanislaw,

We are just looking at the patch and are wondering why one
would like to have more than 256 devices ?


-Phil
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