On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:12, Roman Zippel wrote:
> How are these disks registered and how will the dev_t number look like?
Al Viro's work so far makes those issues you can defer nicely.
> How will the user know about these numbers?
Devices.txt or dynamic assignment
> Who creates these device entries (user or daemon)?
Who cares 8) Thats just the devfs argument all over again 8)
> SCSI has multiple majors, disks 0-15 are at major 8, disks 16-31 are at
> 65, ...., disks 112-127 are at major 71. Will this stay the same? Where
> are the disk 128-xxx?
> Can I have now more than 15 partitions?
It becomes possible, more importantly we can begin to support
partitioned CD-ROM both for multisession and for real partition
tables on CD (eg Macintrash)
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Mar 31 2003 - 22:00:29 EST