Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Lots of SCSI-disks, how?! | Date | 24 Apr 1998 17:43:43 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.199804220156.LAA06918@vindaloo.atnf.csiro.au>, Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> wrote: >David Woodhouse writes: >> >> Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU said: >> > 16 SCSI discs is the limit because the Linux SCSI implementation >> > supports 16 partitions per disc. With 8 bit minor numbers, you can >> > only fit 16*16 (256) partitions and discs on a SCSI system. >> >> > One "solution" is to increase the minor number size, but that has >> > problems with C library compatibilities. >> >> I thought glibc supported 64 bit dev_t. The filesystems might have problems, >> though. > >There's still plently of people using libc 5 (and for good >reasons!). I think there's even people using libc 4.
Yup. Install disks and mission-critical software.
____ david parsons \bi/ "But libc4 isn't being developed anymore!" "precisely" \/
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