Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:21:01 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 32bit dev_t |
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:56:02PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:29:17PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > > Linux doesn't really need a 32 bit kdev_t structure to support 1000 > > disks. There is plenty of device space available to support over 1500 > > disks by modifying the linux scsi layer. > > First, that's an approach that removes space from other devices. > In addition, I suspect we'll see 2000 disk systems before we see 2.8.
Of course, we know the solution is /dev/disk, as mentioned by Linus at least a couple times, which eliminates a lot of dev_t limitation issues... :)
Jeff
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