Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:33:33 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Lots of SCSI-disks, how?! |
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Richard Gooch 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. If 2.3 were to > introduce a 64 bit dev_t, it would stuff these people up, I think. > While you could perhaps argue that libc 4 is so ancient that it > doesn't have to be supported with kernel 2.3, I don't think libc 5 > compatibility should be broken yet.
Hey, I'm so cheap that I still have xv 3.00 (because it was the last freeware version) and it was compiled against libc 4. Actually I've got a fair amount of stuff that is still a.out and I've never found the time to hunt down sources and rebuild it. Should I be clearing my calendar for this task? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu I'd rather be designing and coding.
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