Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 00:29:19 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
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Subject: Re: [code] Unlimited partitions, a try
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:11:52 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> 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.

This was proposed ages ago. Al Viro vetoed sparse minors and it has been
stuck this way ever since. If you have > 15 partitions use device mapper
for it. I'd prefer it fixed but its arguable that device mapper is the
right way to punt all our partitioning to userspace


Alan
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