Michael Reed wrote: > Following a site power outage which re-enabled all the ports on my FC > switches, my system subsequently booted with far too many luns! I had > let it run hoping it would make multi-user. It didn't. :( It hung solid > after exhausting the last sd device, sdzzz, and attempting to create sdaaaa > and beyond. I was unable to get a dump. > > Discovered using a 2.6.32.13 based system. > > Patch at the bottom corrects this by detecting when the last index is > utilized and failing the sd probe of the device. Patch applies to > scsi-misc-2.6. > Hmm. Shouldn't we rather use dynamic majors once we're over SD_MAJORS? We do have enough space in the 'index' field and the name is generated dynamically anyway ... Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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
