On 11. mai. 2006, at 02:16, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:24:12PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
On Tue, 2 May 2006 14:59:52 +0200, Hans A Eide
<[email protected]> wrote:
I do backups to external USB storage and hit the 8 partitions limit
of ub.c
This could also be a problem for others (HFS+ formatted iPods?)
It was a bad mistake in retrospect. I limited ub to 8 partitions
because I wanted to fit 26 devices into 8 bits of minor.
Any reason for not increasing the partitions limit to 16?
Doing so would not be compatible for systems which do not run udevd.
Linus forbade such changes, and I agree. So, if we strongly needed
ub to go beyond 1+7 partitions, we would need some kind of a
remapping
scheme. I have to discuss this with Greg or Harald. Making dis-
contiguous nodes is easy with mknod, but I do not know if udev
supports it.
udev can handle it just fine, as it just looks at the sysfs "dev" file
to get the major:minor numbers. It knows nothing about "ranges" :)
I can confirm this in practice. Good magic :-)
Hans
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