Re: Problems with limited numbers of partitions
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:17:52PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > The limitation of 16 partitions on a SCSI disk (err, make that 15, since
> > the whole-disk device takes up a minor number, too) is determined by the
> > device number allocation.
>
> [opens the hood, like I should have before making guesses]
>
> How would devfs make this go away? 2.4.4 still has the hardcoded DEVICE_NR
> macro used all over sd.c ...
It would make it possible to fix without breaking user-space. I didn't
know the kernel was so heavily dependent on it.
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