Of course, the way block devices that represent disks register with the
system would have to change, but the current waste of minors by devices
that never exist is rediculous anyway.
Thanks
-steve
Joel Becker wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:43:31PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>
>>So people should have started working on it sooner. If people really think
>>they need a 32bit dev_t for their $BIGNUM of disks (and I still don't buy
>>that argument) we should just introduce it and use it only for block devices
>>(which already are fixed up for this) and stay with the old 8+8 split for
>>character devices. Note that Linux is about doing stuff right, not fast.
>>
>>
>
> Wait, so ugly hacks that steal every remaining major is doing it
>'right'? I've done the math with the current available majors. I don't
>see 4000 disks there, and that is just life as it exists today, not 2-3
>years from now when 2.8 finally appears. Like Andrew asked, please
>describe exactly how you'd support it.
>
>Joel
>
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>
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