Thomas E. Ruth writes:
> Hello,
>
> I was informed by someone that devfs might help me get linux to see more
> than 16 partitions on my scsi drives. I have installed the patch,
> recompiled, etc. from information in the FAQ and my system didn't want
> to boot at all after that. The system is a RedHat6.1 (which I have
> upgraded glibc to 2.1.3 per FAQ). The problem was with the /dev/md??
> device drivers. I have 9 mirrors, and for each and every one of them,
> the raidstart command said "illegal argument". Is there an easy way to
> fix this problem so I can boot up and give things a shot?
You're not running devfsd, are you? You need this for the
compatibility names. Either that or edit your /etc/raidtab file.
> I also noticed that in my /dev/scsi/....../part?? there were only 16
> of them. Is devfs still limited to the number of partitions I can
> have on my drive?
Devfs allows drivers to overcome limitations imposed by the device
numbering scheme. Someone has to put in the work to update the Linux
SCSI and block device layers to make use of this. Until this, the
existing limitations remain.
There is talk about doing this in 2.5.
BTW: I'm still on holidays. Nobody expect a quick response :-)
Regards,
Richard....
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