From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
hch@infradead.org, SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
pbadari@us.ibm.com, willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: lots and lots of disks again
Date: 12 Feb 2004 11:43:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1076604183.2576.89.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040212161800.GU1780@tpkurt.garloff.de>
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:18, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Unless we go for the gendisk aliasing suggestion from James and allocate
> a new major additionally. I did not yet check whether it's feasible.
Well, I've had my ear bent about gendisk aliasing not being feasible, so
to use the new major scheme, we'd have to have something like a boot
time switch in the kernel and only register either the old majors or the
new major.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-12 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 10:45 lots and lots of disks again Andrew Morton
2004-02-10 11:04 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 11:26 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 13:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-10 15:47 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 15:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-10 16:08 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 20:10 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-10 20:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-10 20:58 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 21:21 ` viro
2004-02-10 21:34 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 21:42 ` viro
2004-02-10 22:28 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-10 18:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-11 14:56 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-11 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-11 22:09 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-11 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-11 22:53 ` viro
2004-02-12 15:00 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-12 15:20 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-12 15:57 ` viro
2004-02-12 16:18 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-12 16:43 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-02-16 12:40 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-16 22:57 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-17 0:56 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17 7:57 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-17 15:08 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17 15:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-17 14:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-17 15:18 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17 15:27 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-29 16:41 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-29 23:31 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-03 19:30 ` Mike Anderson
2004-03-03 19:55 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-17 15:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-17 17:57 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-17 18:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-13 0:05 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-02-16 12:31 ` Kurt Garloff
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