From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: James W McMechan <mcmechanjw@juno.com>
Cc: blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Partitioning scheme for ubd's
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 21:41:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311030241.hA32f9gX002520@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Nov 2003 11:15:01 PST." <20031102.111506.-2022799.0.mcmechanjw@juno.com>
mcmechanjw@juno.com said:
> 1) well the device names are at least internally consistent. and there
> are some devices like blah0p1 already. also the proposed scheme for
> dealing with devices above 26 is currently a mess, hdaa hdaaa, since
> with the last patch set I was using I had 400 disks mounted...
> mounting /dev/ubdpa1 ick... we only need one disk controller for a
> effectively unlimited of disk drives which could be called c0dXpY if
> desired...
I think everything understands ubd[a-h][0-9], and that's the way normal people
should refer to them. I just haven't updated the docs to reflect that.
Having said that, I like the current naming for huge numbers of disks.
Jeff
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-02 19:15 Re:[uml-devel] Partitioning scheme for ubd's James W McMechan
2003-11-03 2:41 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
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2003-11-04 18:21 [uml-devel] " BlaisorBlade
2003-11-04 19:52 ` Matt Zimmerman
2003-11-04 20:38 ` BlaisorBlade
2003-11-01 10:59 BlaisorBlade
2003-11-01 22:46 ` Matt Zimmerman
2003-11-03 11:23 ` Henrik Nordstrom
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