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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:56:02 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: 32bit dev_t
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:29:17PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> Linux doesn't really need a 32 bit kdev_t structure to support 1000 
> disks.  There is plenty of device space available to support over 1500 
> disks by modifying the linux scsi layer.

	First, that's an approach that removes space from other devices.
In addition, I suspect we'll see 2000 disk systems before we see 2.8.

Joel


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