Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:36:23 -0500 | Subject | Re: Too many disks in system? (RAID5) | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:25:58PM +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > Hello, > > I have system with attached SATA array which contains 24 disks. I wanted to run > software RAID 5, but 24 disks means, that I would need /dev/sda to /dev/sdx > devices with major 8 and last minor 384. Minor seems to be limited to 8 bits. > Is there any chance to run software array using all 24 disks? > > My test was with mknod v. 5.2.1 and kernel 2.6.14.3
Major 8 is not the only scsi major. Look at devices.txt in the kernel Documentation dir. MAKEDEV also usually knows how to make more scsi devices. For example major 65. Just use MAKEDEV /dev/sdx and see what it creates.
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