On 09/21/2010 10:08 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > 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 ... A bit beyond the scope of what I was trying to correct. And beyond my current knowledge of how things work. If you'd care to guide me, or provide me a patch for testing.... I can probably get my config up to 30,000 or so luns. Mike > > Cheers, > > Hannes -- 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
