On 03/30/2012 11:38 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:26:06AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
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
So, if a device name ends in digit the partition code adds delimiter
'p' automatically and this is already in use by md. So, partitioned
md devices are named mdDpP where D and P are base 10 number indicating
the sequence like md12p4. So, let's please add comment that new
drivers should name their devices PREFIX%d where the sequence number
can be allocated by ida.
Oh, got it. Just like md devices' names.
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Thanks,
Ren
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