Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 08 Mar 2003 01:04:05 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 22:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This is essential. There are installations using >1000 disks > > and? we still have tons of free block majors..
You can throw 65536 volumes onto a single S/390 box. Going to 32bit dev_t sorts out a lot of the problems people have with major numbering and allocation of devices sensibly, it means I can finally get the space to do stuff like supporting session mounting on cd too
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