From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:04:30 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20030411100430.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304101339.49895.pbadari@us.ibm.com>
On 10-Apr-2003 Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is the (sd) patch to support > 4000 disks on 32-bit dev_t work
> in 2.5.67-mm tree.
>
> This patch addresses the backward compatibility with device nodes
> issue. All the new disks will be addressed by only last major.
>
> SCSI has 16 majors. Each major supports 16 disks currently. [...]
4000 discs should be enough for anyone :)
Are >16 partitions/disc possible ?
Bye.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 20:39 [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-10 20:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-11 0:08 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-11 1:25 ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-11 15:43 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 8:04 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2003-04-11 15:44 ` [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain Joel Becker
2003-04-11 16:28 ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-11 17:57 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 18:12 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-11 18:35 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-11 20:04 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-11 23:18 ` Joel Becker
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