Opinions about MAXIMUM_PARTS crippling in util-linux-2.11r-miscfixes.patch
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 11:35:17 UTC 2003
> My understanding is that this has been done to mask a bug in Microsoft
> Windows 2000 which goes into infinite loop going back and forth
> through the disk when it sees 16 or more partitions.
I dont know about that bit but Linux itself has limits based on the number
of allocated minor numbers with some devices. SCSI is one example.
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