On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:36:31PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> what if the b and c device entries for the hard disks went to new
> major numbers, with the old majors still active for a release or two?
> surely the drivers don't care...do they?

Why only b and c ? We need a new major number for each supported disk.

> 
> or is the major obstacle the size of the disklabel...?

Not really, but with 16 we'll have the problem again soon. We need a more
generic solution here.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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