On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:11:52 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
