> David Woodhouse writes:
> >
> > Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU said:
> > > 16 SCSI discs is the limit because the Linux SCSI implementation
> > > supports 16 partitions per disc. With 8 bit minor numbers, you can
> > > only fit 16*16 (256) partitions and discs on a SCSI system.
> >
> > > One "solution" is to increase the minor number size, but that has
> > > problems with C library compatibilities.
> >
> > I thought glibc supported 64 bit dev_t. The filesystems might have problems,
> > though.
>
> There's still plently of people using libc 5 (and for good
> reasons!). I think there's even people using libc 4. If 2.3 were to
> introduce a 64 bit dev_t, it would stuff these people up, I think.
> While you could perhaps argue that libc 4 is so ancient that it
> doesn't have to be supported with kernel 2.3, I don't think libc 5
> compatibility should be broken yet.
Hey, I'm so cheap that I still have xv 3.00 (because it was the last
freeware version) and it was compiled against libc 4. Actually I've got
a fair amount of stuff that is still a.out and I've never found the
time to hunt down sources and rebuild it. Should I be clearing my
calendar for this task?
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu I'd rather be designing and coding.
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