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SubjectRe: [NFS] RE: [autofs] multiple servers per automount
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Followup to:  <3F8C1BB6.9010202@sun.com>
By author: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Here is the quick fix for this in RH 2.1AS kernels:
>
> http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/rh21as/SOURCES/linux-2.4.9-moreunnamed.patch
>
> It makes unnamed block devices use majors 12, 14, 38, 39, as well as 0.
>
> I don't know if anyone is working out a better scheme for
> get_unnamed_dev in 2.6 yet. It does need to be done though. A simple
> patch for 2.6 would maybe see the unnamed_dev_in_use bitmap grow to
> PAGE_SIZE, automatically allowing for 32768 unnamed devices.
>

dev_t enlargement, which solves this without a bunch of auxilliary
majors, should be in 2.6.

-hpa
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