Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:30:54 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Subject | Re: possible SCSI device numbering solution |
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
> > There is little point going through the disruption that changing it would > > be, to change it again, so we may as well go to a 64 bit dev_t. One > > thing tho, would we even need more than 65536 major devices? ie 16 bit > > major, 48 bit minor (or 281474976710656 minor numbers (2.8*10^14) ;) > > I'm reminded of somebody saying, "they'll never need more than 640k". :-/ > This really is'nt a problem. If you look back, the capacity of hard disks increased, not the number of hard disks in a system. It's much more likely that we run in trouble becauce 32 bits are to small to count the all the sectors of a disk...
Gerd
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