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

Joel Becker (Joel.Becker@oracle.com)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:43:46 -0700

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:25:12PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> I can't see (2) happening easily. I know that Greg KH is working on
> udev (/dev/ memory filesystem). Once that happens, we have to change
> drivers/subsystems (we need) to make dynamic allocation. All of this Is
> going to happen for 2.6 ?

Just to be clear, let's not repeat the devfsd fiasco. If we
have dynamic update of device nodes (we need it), I want it to work with
my /dev on ext3.

Joel

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