On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0800, Ren Mingxin wrote: > The current virtblk's naming algorithm only supports 263 disks. > If there are mass of virtblks(exceeding 263), there will be disks > with the same name. > > By renaming "sd_format_disk_name()" to "disk_name_format()" > and moving it into block core, virtio_blk can use this function to > support mass of disks. > > Signed-off-by: Ren Mingxin <renmx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I guess it's already way too late but why couldn't they have been named vdD-P where both D and P are integers denoting disk number and partition number? [sh]dX's were created when there weren't supposed to be too many disks, so we had to come up with the horrible alphabet based numbering scheme but vd is new enough. I mean, naming is one thing but who wants to figure out which sequence is or guess what comes next vdzz9? :( If we're gonna move it to block layer, let's add big blinking red comment saying "don't ever use it for any new driver". Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
