From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:43:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:43:21 -0500 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([12.107.208.200]:17932 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:43:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:42:48 -0500 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Richard Gooch Cc: Pete Zaitcev , Rainer Krienke , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.17:Increase number of anonymous filesystems beyond 256? Message-ID: <20020125134248.B16106@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200201240858.g0O8wnH03603@bliss.uni-koblenz.de> <20020124121649.A7722@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <200201250728.g0P7SDH26738@bliss.uni-koblenz.de> <20020125124110.A357@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <200201251834.g0PIYxj02545@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200201251834.g0PIYxj02545@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>; from rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:34:59AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:34:59 -0700 > From: Richard Gooch > The allocation function should be safe, since it only gives majors > which are not assigned in devices.txt. [...] Oh, that changes it, I should have looked closer. I am not sure the "1200 NFS mounts" case warrants the change though, so far we have only one active user (Rainer) :) If ISPs and universities clamour for my patch, then sure, we may improve it with devfs_alloc_major() in 2.4, too. Otherwise, whatever... Thanks for the explanation, Richard, I'll keep it in my notes. -- Pete