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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