Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:58:52 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing |
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Hi!
> so it's easy to map to a fixed number. SCSI already has to use dynamic > numbers, because it wouldn't otherwise fit into a 16bit dev_t and with SAN > even 64bit will not be enough. This makes SCSI very annoying, when at the > next boot everything has a new name, because a disk was added/removed.
Ugh? 64bits not enough? I don't think so. You could do 20/44 bits split for example... Or allocate 60000 majors just for disks. But I do not think you have 2^32 disks in any SAN.
-- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...
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