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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:41:53 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch for playing] 2.5.65 patch to support > 256 disks
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:04:41AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> 2) Instead of allocating hd_struct structure for all possible partitions,
> why not allocated them dynamically, as we see a partition ? This
> way we could (in theory) support more than 16 partitions, if needed.

This is what I plan to do.
Of course you are welcome to do it first.

Andries

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