Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:16:19 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Increasing limit on SCSI hard drives |
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Terry L. Ridder writes: > Hello; > > Since Informix & Oracle have joined the Linux Community > with their recent press releases it will be a matter of time > before the current limit of 16 SCSI hard drives poses a problem. > > Are there an plans to increase the limit to even 32 in the near > future? > > Is this type of enhancement scheduled for Linux-2.3?
Jakub wrote a patch for the vger tree. It increased the size of dev_t to handle more discs, which required new syscalls, which then required new (patched) applications (like fdisk(8) and mount(8) IIRC). An alternative that doesn't require a change in dev_t size or changes to userspace is to use the automagic device number generation in devfs, and use the filp->private_data mechanism to distinguish partitions/drives. I've been planning on doing this, but haven't had time. I'd welcome a patch, though :-)
Regards,
Richard....
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