Re: Lots of SCSI-disks, how?!

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:38:55 +1000


Ulrich Drepper writes:
> Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> writes:
>
> > OK, I don't understand how this could work. Could you please show
> > exactly what changes you would make to the kernel struct inode?
>
> I don't speak about the kernel. I don't know enough about this.

David Woodhouse pointed out the details in his last message.

> > That's the point. I don't like blocking libc 5 access to the 17th SCSI
> > disc. We don't *have* to do that. There is a way of supporting more
> > than 16 SCSI discs and *still* give access to all those discs with
> > libc 5. The same scheme would even work for for libc 4.
>
> These will be ugly hack which will become an ugly nightmare at some
> point.

Erm, what ugly hack are you referring to?

Regards,

Richard....

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