RE: [patch for playing] Patch to support 4000 disks and maintain
Giuliano Pochini (pochini@shiny.it)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:04:30 +0200 (CEST)
On 10-Apr-2003 Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is the (sd) patch to support > 4000 disks on 32-bit dev_t work
> in 2.5.67-mm tree.
>
> This patch addresses the backward compatibility with device nodes
> issue. All the new disks will be addressed by only last major.
>
> SCSI has 16 majors. Each major supports 16 disks currently. [...]
4000 discs should be enough for anyone :)
Are >16 partitions/disc possible ?
Bye.
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