Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Rusty,
> 
> currently virtio_blk uses one major number per device. While this works
> quite well on most systems it is wasteful and will exhaust major numbers
> on larger installations.
> 
> This patch allocates a major number on init and will use 16 minor numbers
> for each disk. That will allow ~64k virtio_blk disks.
> 

Would it be too much to allow 64 minors (63 partitions)?  I have run out 
of 16, myself, but never 64.

        -hpa

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