On 10/27/99, 12:08:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guest section DW) wrote
regarding Re: Devices limit:
> > Ah Ha! Please explain more about " large device numbers".
> Well. We used to have major 8 for SCSI disk, with minors
> 0, 16, 32, ... for sda, sdb, sdc, ...
> and (sub)minors 1..15 for partitions 1-15 on the disk.
> For most purposes this is not a serious restriction,
> but in case there is a good reason to use 255 partitions
> on a single disk one just grabs a new major, and a tiny
> kernel patch will do.
This would suit our needs perfectly! Is the patch for this available
somewhere?
Thank you very much,
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