From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: Fwd: 32bit dev_t Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:51:53 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030123005152.GT20972@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <3E2DC21D.9010204@torque.net> <20030122091815.A32098@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030122155513.A32554@jose.vato.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from inet-mail2.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet-mail2.oracle.com (Switch-2.2.3/Switch-2.2.3) with ESMTP id h0N0q7201973 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.10]) by inet-mail2.oracle.com (Switch-2.2.3/Switch-2.2.3) with ESMTP id h0N0q6p01949 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-2.1.3/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id h0N0q5401725 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:52:05 -0700 (MST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030122155513.A32554@jose.vato.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Pepper , Patrick Mansfield , Douglas Gilbert , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, sdake@mvista.com On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:55:14PM -0800, Tim Pepper wrote: > I've also run many thousands with a little bit of code somebody > posted here or on l-k a year or two ago that makes scsi disks not have > partitions... Yes, but "not have partitions" is not something that will be generally acceptable. We need real support for this. Joel -- "Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain." -Unknown Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127