From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:05:10 -0600 Message-ID: <20080327190510.GO16721@parisc-linux.org> References: <47E87942.2020409@rtr.ca> <47E88A13.70808@zytor.com> <47E90019.3050006@rtr.ca> <47E90458.7030801@zytor.com> <47E9383F.3050908@rtr.ca> <20080325192515.GA24234@suse.de> <20080325123454.4eba7644.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <47E96263.9000808@zytor.com> <20080325212032.GA24495@suse.de> <47E96E15.7020105@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:33827 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756132AbYC0TFN (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:05:13 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47E96E15.7020105@zytor.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Greg KH , Randy Dunlap , Mark Lord , Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , IDE/ATA development list , linux-scsi On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:26:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Well, when dealing with shell scripts a O(n) very easily becomes O(n^2). > For the stuff that I, personally, do, it's not a big deal, but people > with large number of disks have serious gripes with our boot times. This should be a solved problem with scsi_mod.scan=async (or equivalent compile option). Are people still complaining about it, and if so, have they tried this option? -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."