Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

From: Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 06:14:27 EST

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On 2003-04-03T02:09:48,
David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> said:

> when you think of huge raid arrays that present themselves to the system
> as a single drive even 64 partitions can be limiting.

That's what logical volume management is for. Problem solved.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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