Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763742AbXJEWMQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:12:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758492AbXJEWME (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:12:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:52851 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757959AbXJEWMD (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:12:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4706B6A8.2060800@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:11:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [code] Unlimited partitions, a try References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 572 Lines: 14 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 15 partitions (at least for sd_mod devices) are too few. Now when we have 20-bit minors, can't we simply recycle some of the higher bits for additional partitions, across the board? 63 partitions seem to have been sufficient; at least I haven't heard anyone complain about that for 15 years. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/