Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:21:09 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain backward compatibility |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:14:32PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > Linux does not arbitrarily break old systems. The aim must be > > to have all combinations of (old/new) kernel with (old/new) glibc > > to work well in all situations where old kernel + old glibc worked.
100%
> Well, if you're going to do this, at least make it possible to tie all > the sd devices to a single major (i.e. the numeric compatibility layer > simply maps to the new single major scheme internally). It would also > be nice for numeric compatibility to be a compile time option too...
The real issue is that almost all consumers of the new kernel will have a /dev populated with old numbers. Only new installs (completely fresh) won't be burdened. And new installs won't be the majority of 2.6 users for quite some time after 2.6.0.
Joel
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