From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@digeo.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:16:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030308221651.GL2835@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030308215239.A782@infradead.org>
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:52:39PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> What hack to steal every remaining major? Remember that Linus already said
> that there won't be new static majors anyway.
Having more than one major for disks is a hack. Already.
> were do you get this 4000 disks number from? Every big system in practice
> is attached to some EMC/LSI/IBM/whatever array anyway that virtualizes
> away the actual disk.
We've already got systems with 4000 disks attached. Registered
with the system, even. This isn't hiding behind some big array. They
are part of the system. No, it's not on Linux, because Linux can't
handle it. But if the system wants to go Linux, Linux has to handle it.
And 1900 disks wont' cut it *today*. Never mind 2 years from now.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-08 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-08 0:57 [PATCH] register_blkdev Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 0:53 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20030308073407.A24272@infradead.org>
2003-03-08 19:29 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 21:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:41 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 22:16 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-03-08 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-10 17:31 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 23:37 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 23:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 5:08 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-03-17 19:21 ` Steven Dake
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-08 20:59 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 21:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:26 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 20:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:50 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 19:32 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 22:12 ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:45 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:50 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-08 1:03 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-09 2:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-10 4:46 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-03-08 15:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 19:37 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:00 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 22:55 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-07 22:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-07 23:38 ` John Cherry
2003-03-07 23:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 1:58 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 2:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 2:42 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 19:31 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 21:39 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:59 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 4:32 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-09 5:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-03-07 18:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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