Re: lots and lots of disks again

James Bottomley
2004-02-17T17:58:00Z

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 10:50, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:18:07AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > The correct way to solve this is an all or nothing migration gated by a
> > boot time flag.
>
> Yes, I was also thinking of boot time flags, but not all-or-nothing.
> Almost nobody actually needs these five thousand disks, and programs
> like LILO know about major 8, so I can even imagine that someone with
> lots of disks would like the boot disk to remain sda (8,0) even when
> all the others become (1049,*)-(1073,*).
>
> 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.

James