On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:45:24PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > But also, the sysfs with over 4,000 (and higher) devices was > specifically checked by OSDL (actually as part of the CGL testing) some > of the Manoj changes (for unpinning entries etc) were needed to get it > to function, but as of now, I believe an enterprise scaling test works > reasonably well for it ... there certainly wasn't any evidence of it > dying horribly in the tests. i386 exhausts lowmem very quickly. SCSI is in a bit better shape than network devices as the multiplier is only around 4 compared to 16 for network devices. My point stands, though. Forcing every new feature to go in via sysfs is not the right thing to do. Some people don't/can't use it, please remember them. -ben -- "Time is of no importance, Mr. President, only life is important." Don't Email: <zyntrop@xxxxxxxxx>. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
