Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:04:17 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Evms-devel] Re: [PATCH] EVMS core 1/4: evms.c |
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> This was done to abstract the storage/lookup > method. Currently with only 256 minors per major > a simply kernel list is adequate, however once > the kernel goes to 20-bit minors a list will not > be sufficient.
Before that happens you'll get nice private pointers in the higher level objects so you don't need to do lookups in any fast-path anymore..
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