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Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:21:51 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:16:51PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:52:39PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 	Having more than one major for disks is a hack.  Already.

Damn, to you actually read what I wrote in all previous mails?  THE MAJOR/MINOR
SPLIT IS GONE FOR BLOCK DEVICES.  There are just ranges, the only difference
with a bigger dev_t is that the total amount of claimed space can be bigger.

> 	We've already got systems with 4000 disks attached.  Registered
> with the system, even.  This isn't hiding behind some big array.  They
> are part of the system.  No, it's not on Linux, because Linux can't
> handle it.  But if the system wants to go Linux, Linux has to handle it.
> And 1900 disks wont' cut it *today*.  Never mind 2 years from now.

So if you need so damn lot why don't you start auditing the character drivers
now instead of whining?  

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