Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Minor numbers | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 09:22:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 255. Has this limitation been some how addressed with 2.4? 256 devices > per module, sometimes is not enough, especially if you are in the SAN > environment; or when the 256 minors numbers are broken down to several
2.4 is using 16bit dev_t in kernel still. Application space sees a much larger dev_t so we can make the move in 2.5 very easily
> work-around or is proposing a solution? I believe that minor and major > numbers for SUN and AIX are both 16 bits each (32 bits dev_t).
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