On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:24:00PM +1300, Xiangfei Jia wrote: > For block devices, the "blkdevs" array is used to hold all the registered > block device drivers, and the maximum number of allowed block drivers is > 255. There is another hash table array called "bdev_hashtable", which is > array of struct "block_device". None of this is present in the 2.6 kernel anymore, we do not have this limitation now. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/