On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:11:52 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 15 partitions (at least for sd_mod devices) are too few.
>
> Now when we have 20-bit minors, can't we simply recycle some of the
> higher bits for additional partitions, across the board? 63 partitions
> seem to have been sufficient; at least I haven't heard anyone complain
> about that for 15 years.
This was proposed ages ago. Al Viro vetoed sparse minors and it has been
stuck this way ever since. If you have > 15 partitions use device mapper
for it. I'd prefer it fixed but its arguable that device mapper is the
right way to punt all our partitioning to userspace
Alan
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