Re: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 [e-mail] wrote:

> The conclusion is that the easy way out is to define MAX_NR_DISKS.
> A different way out, especially when we use 32+32, is to kill this
> sd_index_bits[] array, and give each disk a new number: replace
> 	index = find_first_zero_bit(sd_index_bits, SD_DISKS);
> by
> 	index = next_index++;

This one is fun:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0394.html

Anyway, unless you fix all programs which scan /dev/sg*, you better keep 
the used range dense, so this not really option.

bye, Roman