Dunno, not checked source code, it might use sdaaa, you only run out of minor device numbers at 2^20 with recent kernels, but that does include
4 bits per disk for the partitions, so 65536 disks per controller type!
In that pathological case, I'd just clone the device driver with a new major device number and a new node name...!
I think patching the kernel to do whatever was needed would not be a massive exercise..
I still get a kick out of being in a virtual windows machine, seeing the underlying linux machine as a virtual disk in that, and connecting to an NFS mounted server on that..from windows.
Best of all I achieved a first yesterday. I set up a firewalled pipe from my new virtual server in Maidenhead, to the network equipped laserjet here, and was able to print directly from a print queue in maidenhead to the laser printer on my desk here..
Not bad for a domestic broadband link and a cheap router..
That's 'cos you're hardcore Bob ;->
You linux freaks do like your adminning don't you. Is it some kind of penis extension?
Just been in Thailand for a week ... and the news showed all the HDD manufacturing facilities totally flooded out ... Western Digitla, Samsung etc. They said that Thai production of HDD is normally 200,000 per week per factory, and they predict a 20 million unit shortfall for next 6 months.
Not the ideal tiem toi be buying HDD's
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