From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264317AbTDKHwz (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 03:52:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264316AbTDKHwz (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 03:52:55 -0400 Received: from denise.shiny.it ([194.20.232.1]:39340 "EHLO denise.shiny.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264314AbTDKHww (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 03:52:52 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200304101339.49895.pbadari@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:04:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Giuliano Pochini To: Badari Pulavarty Subject: RE: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.