-----Original Message----- From: Mike Waychison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:37 PM To: Ogden, Aaron A. Cc: autofs mailing list; Ian Kent Subject: Re: [autofs] multiple servers per automount
> I don't see how the autofs code would cause such a problem... I don't either. There are a lot of variables at work though... > 2.6 mainline still has the 256 pseudo-block device limit. Fortunately, > the patches used in distros should still apply with minimal fuzz. Devfs > probably won't help matters here. That is depressing... here I was thinking that 2.6 would be some kind of utopian wonderland free of problems. :-( > I think the next step in 2.6 is to change the bitmap used to grow as > needed.. especially now that minors are 20 bits, or 1048576 minors :)) Yes that is what I was thinking about, unfortunately I don't know the details, I'm working off of a hazy memory. I thought devfs didn't use the major/minor concept anymore? I'm curious to see how it will work with storage devices, esp. hot-pluggable devices like SCSI and USB drives. Right now their device names change depending on the order that they are connected, it's quite confusing. Someone at Dell wrote software to keep the device names constant by using aliases for them. It's a nice concept but it's just a hack, the real problem is that we don't have /dev/c0t0d0s0 as in Solaris. _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
