Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:12:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing |
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Hi,
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
You must have overlooked some of my questions:
How are these disks registered and how will the dev_t number look like? How will the user know about these numbers? Who creates these device entries (user or daemon)?
> > How is backward compatibility done, so that I can still boot a 2.4 kernel? > > Old device numbers remain valid, so all changes are completely > transparent.
SCSI has multiple majors, disks 0-15 are at major 8, disks 16-31 are at 65, ...., disks 112-127 are at major 71. Will this stay the same? Where are the disk 128-xxx? Can I have now more than 15 partitions?
bye, Roman
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