From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: 2.6.0 stability and the BK scsi trees Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:38:20 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031018163820.GC18370@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <1066265974.16761.426.camel@fuzzy> <3F8E8786.2020502@torque.net> <20031016132804.GA18370@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20031018082450.A6510@beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:9856 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261692AbTJRQi1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:38:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031018082450.A6510@beaverton.ibm.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Mansfield Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Douglas Gilbert , James Bottomley , SCSI Mailing List , pbadari@us.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