Re: many-disk support

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:06:04AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

LWN were kind enough to archive my previous thoughts on this at
http://lwn.net/Articles/54840/

I'd've worked on some code for this if anyone had been interested ...

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