RE: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain

Giuliano Pochini
2003-04-11T07:52:55Z

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.