On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:37:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, theres lots of code in kernelspace that assumes a partitioned disk > > has a block of minors. Use a volume manager instead of traditional > > partitions if you need more than 15 subdivions of a disk. > > Ide disks have a block of 64 minors per disk, scsi only 16. So it > can't be hardcoded that much.
You misunderstand. The problem is the assumption that all minors per disc are contiguous (in a single block). This is fairly fundamental and difficult to change. I tried to do it and gave up. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
