From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262051AbTJNUpR (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:45:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262274AbTJNUpR (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:45:17 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:524 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262051AbTJNUpM (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:45:12 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [NFS] RE: [autofs] multiple servers per automount Date: 14 Oct 2003 13:44:45 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <3F8C1BB6.9010202@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <3F8C1BB6.9010202@sun.com> By author: Mike Waychison In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Here is the quick fix for this in RH 2.1AS kernels: > > http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/rh21as/SOURCES/linux-2.4.9-moreunnamed.patch > > It makes unnamed block devices use majors 12, 14, 38, 39, as well as 0. > > I don't know if anyone is working out a better scheme for > get_unnamed_dev in 2.6 yet. It does need to be done though. A simple > patch for 2.6 would maybe see the unnamed_dev_in_use bitmap grow to > PAGE_SIZE, automatically allowing for 32768 unnamed devices. > dev_t enlargement, which solves this without a bunch of auxilliary majors, should be in 2.6. -hpa -- at work, in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64