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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
	Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	pbadari@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 stability and the BK scsi trees
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:38:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031018163820.GC18370@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031018082450.A6510@beaverton.ibm.com>

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:24:50AM -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> If you have not seen it, Badari's sd patch is in the mm tree:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test7/2.6.0-test7-mm1/broken-out/support-zillions-of-scsi-disks.patch

I hadn't ... it doesn't address expanding the number of partitions or
the problem that the sd_index_bits array will grow to a huge size.

-- 
"It's not Hollywood.  War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death.  I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-18 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-16  0:59 2.6.0 stability and the BK scsi trees James Bottomley
2003-10-16 11:56 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-10-16 13:28   ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-18 15:24     ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-10-18 16:38       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-10-20 14:54         ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-10-17 12:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-22 14:23   ` James Bottomley

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