Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 17:55:33 EST


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)

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