Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [NFS] RE: [autofs] multiple servers per automount | Date | 14 Oct 2003 13:44:45 -0700 |
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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.
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