From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: lots and lots of disks again Date: 29 Feb 2004 10:41:36 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1078072902.1779.41.camel@mulgrave> References: <20040211225348.GM21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040212150035.GN1780@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040212155721.GS21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040212161800.GU1780@tpkurt.garloff.de> <1076604183.2576.89.camel@mulgrave> <20040216124047.GG4011@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040216225704.GA3420@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1076979373.1758.688.camel@mulgrave> <20040217144959.GA4282@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1077031099.1757.24.camel@mulgrave> <20040217152714.GG3810@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat1.steeleye.com ([65.114.3.130]:63948 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262076AbUB2Ql6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:41:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040217152714.GG3810@tpkurt.garloff.de> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Garloff Cc: Andries Brouwer , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, SCSI Mailing List , pbadari@us.ibm.com, willy@debian.org On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 09:27, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Agreed. Having it the new scheme optional now (defaulting to off), > deprecating the old numbers in 2.7 (defaulting new scheme to on) > and drop from 2.8 looks like a reasonable plan to me. > > Now we ionly need to get some device space allocated. > > PS: I believe 64 partitions is enough. OK, this all went quiet again. The choices are between the current patch from Kurt which is limited to 16 partitions, or a new patch (which no-one has yet produced) to raise us to 64 partitions on a new major number with a switching scheme. Kurt, since you're pushing the patch, which do you want me to do? Apply your current patch for 16 or wait for a new one for 64? James