Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-31 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 22:36, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > As for 3 this is a general problem of scsi disks. Wouldn't it be > > possible for the code that scans partitions to allocate device nodes > > dynamically for partitions

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Matthew Wilcox
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 th

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> As for 3 this is a general problem of scsi disks. Wouldn't it be >> possible for the code that scans partitions to allocate device nodes >> dynamically for partitions >15 so tha

Re: Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:11:30PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As for 3 this is a general problem of scsi disks. Wouldn't it be > possible for the code that scans partitions to allocate device nodes > dynamically for partitions >15 so that users with devfs or udev active > would get additi

Problems with SATA and >15 partitions

2004-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, recently we (debian-amd64) have gotten some problem reports for SATA. Depending on the kernel version, how it is configured and how the initrd is build an SATA disk shows up as /dev/hde or /dev/sda. This has three consequences: 1. going back and forth between an old and new kernel means chan