Guillaume, You can have multiple major numbers used for DASD devices, but my point was to avoid using DASD at all, and use straight SCSI to the storage array.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Guillaume Morin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: your mail Dans un message du 23 Sep ` 17:01, Post, Mark K icrivait : > 3 - It's already been done with FCP support. Systems can access > storage arrays "natively" without going through that [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3390-emulation layer any longer. (I'm assuming you meant 3390 and not > 3380 as you typed it.) Any distribution can support that many 3390 > volumes, though. Whether the distribution provider has that support > "as distributed" or whether the IT shop has to create the device nodes > is another question. The problem is still the number of available minor numbers. If I am not mistaken, the kernel gives 4 minor numbers for one dasd. This means you can mount at the same time 255/4 = 63 disks. You can still play with the kernel ignore list, I guess. Am I missing anything ? Anyway, the 2.6.0 kernel is supposed to be released with 32 bits device numbers.... So this should not be a problem anymore. Guillaume. -- Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oh, that is nice out there, I think I'll stay for a while (RHCP)
