Re: lots and lots of disks again

Andries Brouwer
2004-02-17T18:44:52Z

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:57:37PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:

> > Then what is the boot parameter? I don't know. Anything.
> > Say, scsi-legacy=sda,sdb,sde.
>
> But this is complexity for no gain.
>
> The proposal is very simple: You want large numbers or discs or large
> numbers of partitions, you get fixed tools and use a flat space on the
> new major number. You want legacy, you don't do anything for 2.6; for
> 2.7 you'll need to specify a boot flag.

Yes, I understand what you propose.
I describe something more backwards compatible. Without a flag day.
Without the need to change device nodes that you have already.
Without the need to change them back when you boot an old kernel.

Change is painful. All-or-nothing changes even more so.
I like keeping support for the old stuff, but making its use
slowly more inconvenient (by making the new things the default).

Andries