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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:44:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030411154450.GW31739@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030411100430.pochini@shiny.it>

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:04:30AM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> 4000 discs should be enough for anyone :)
> Are >16 partitions/disc possible ?

	>16 partitions/disc is possible once you remove Linux's
arbitrary limit.
	4000 disks is today.  8000 disks is next year at the latest.
Just imagine multipathing today's 4000 disks.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle Corporation
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-11 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-10 20:39 [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-10 20:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-11  0:08 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11  1:25   ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-11 15:43     ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11  8:04 ` [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain Giuliano Pochini
2003-04-11 15:44   ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-04-11 16:28     ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-11 17:57       ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 18:12         ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-11 18:35           ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 20:04             ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-11 23:18               ` Joel Becker

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