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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next prev parent 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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