From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 tools lvmcmdline.c major and minor number limits
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:15:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080213121530.GQ29914@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202900520.4345.115.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:02:00AM +0000, Darren Lavender wrote:
> I was wondering whether there was any particular reason why the
> limitations below are still present given that these were changed
> between 2.4 and 2.6 linux kernels?
Yes, it's probably time we changed that - nobody's noticed it before.
We just have to check the code copes OK if someone sets it to a large number
then reboots with a kernel that doesn't support it.
Setting the major number at device creation time is *still* not supported in
2.6. (2.4 does support it.)
Alasdair
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agk@redhat.com
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2008-02-13 11:02 [linux-lvm] LVM2 tools lvmcmdline.c major and minor number limits Darren Lavender
2008-02-13 12:15 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2008-02-13 13:36 ` Darren Lavender
2008-02-13 14:53 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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