[7448] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Devices limit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (irish@n2h2.com)
Wed Oct 27 16:38:25 1999
From: <irish@n2h2.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:35:45 GMT
Message-ID: <19991027.21354500@ballista.bess.net>
To: dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW)
CC: dwguest@win.tue.nl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On 10/27/99, 12:08:51 PM, dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) wrote
regarding Re: Devices limit:
> > Ah Ha! Please explain more about " large device numbers".
> Well. We used to have major 8 for SCSI disk, with minors
> 0, 16, 32, ... for sda, sdb, sdc, ...
> and (sub)minors 1..15 for partitions 1-15 on the disk.
> For most purposes this is not a serious restriction,
> but in case there is a good reason to use 255 partitions
> on a single disk one just grabs a new major, and a tiny
> kernel patch will do.
This would suit our needs perfectly! Is the patch for this available
somewhere?
Thank you very much,
Irish@n2h2.com
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