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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	"viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk"
	<viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: many-disk support
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:06:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031229110603.A27408@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031229022549.50bae6d7.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:25:49AM -0800

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:25:49AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Guys, I've had this patch for ages.  Badari seemed to say that it wasn't
> the "right" way to do it.
> 
> Can we get this nailed down please?

 - I think the bitmap overhead was killing us on big x86 machines, right?
   so that might need some swork.
 - a config option definitly is the wrong way to go.
 - I don't think assigning more numbers to the last major is a bad idea,
   better assign them to the first one, maybe with a hole for what we're
   using the other majors currently for, so when udev gets more mature
   we can kill the additional majors.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-29 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-29 10:25 many-disk support Andrew Morton
2003-12-29 11:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-12-29 14:27   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-01-09 18:51   ` badari

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