Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:13:52 +0200 (MEST) | Subject | Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility |
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> It would also be nice for numeric compatibility to be a compile time option
It sounds as if you expect a lot of old cruft. But the compatibility code is just ten lines or so. Internally the kernel has an index. Externally there is a dev_t. At open() time the dev_t is converted. At registration time sd announces interest in three or four dev_t regions. That is all.
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