Re: Lots of SCSI-disks, how?!
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
24 Apr 1998 17:43:43 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.199804220156.LAA06918@vindaloo.atnf.csiro.au>,
Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> wrote:
>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.
Yup. Install disks and mission-critical software.
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