Re: [PATCH 4/4] virtio_blk: use disk_name_format() to support massof disks naming

[Ren Mingxin]

 Hi, He:

On 03/30/2012 07:22 PM, Asias He wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Ren Mingxin<renmx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >   The current virtblk's naming algorithm only supports 263  disks.
> > If there are mass of virtblks(exceeding 263), there will be disks
> > with the same name.
> This fix is pretty nice. However, current virtblk's naming still
> supports up to 18278 disks, no?
> ( index 0  ->  vda, index 18277 ->  vdzzz ).

Sorry, I intended to type 26^3+ (26^2+26)...
It may still be a restriction which should be improved though.

Thanks,
Ren
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