Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Oct 5 2007 15:11, H. Peter Anvin 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.
GPT allows up to 128 partitions, and the linux partition code currently
allows for up to MAX_PART (256). Assuming 1048576/128, that would give
8192 disks. With dynamic minor allocation and reuse, all that goes away
and the limit becomes a bit less than 1048576 _partitions_.
Yes, but you're proposing something with substantially higher switch
threshold...
-hpa
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