Messages in this thread | | | From | "Tim Pepper" <> | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:14:58 -0800 | Subject | Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 17, 2001 |
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I'm not sure if any of the block changes already include this or if this will rekindle the flamewar on devfs, but something's going to need to happen with device naming.
At the very least the upcoming change to the major/minor allocation will allow large numbers of block devices and fs/partitions/check.c's disk_name() will break. I think a lot of the scsi code's ready to support a large number of devices. It'd be kind of ugly to have it find them and disk_name() give them colliding names or names with odd extended characters.
There's already code out there to allow the sd to find more than 128 devices and I've seen it in use where there are enough luns to cause disk_name() to call them interesting names.
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