Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 May 2006 17:16:46 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block/ub.c: Increase number of partitions for usb storage |
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On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:24:12PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006 14:59:52 +0200, Hans A Eide <haeide@usit.uio.no> wrote: > > > I do backups to external USB storage and hit the 8 partitions limit > > of ub.c > > This could also be a problem for others (HFS+ formatted iPods?) > > It was a bad mistake in retrospect. I limited ub to 8 partitions > because I wanted to fit 26 devices into 8 bits of minor. > > > Any reason for not increasing the partitions limit to 16? > > Doing so would not be compatible for systems which do not run udevd. > Linus forbade such changes, and I agree. So, if we strongly needed > ub to go beyond 1+7 partitions, we would need some kind of a remapping > scheme. I have to discuss this with Greg or Harald. Making dis- > contiguous nodes is easy with mknod, but I do not know if udev > supports it.
udev can handle it just fine, as it just looks at the sysfs "dev" file to get the major:minor numbers. It knows nothing about "ranges" :)
thanks,
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