
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2010 05:37 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
Hello,
On 04/13/2010 06:21 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
So the rumors about this being needed for being able to handle more than 15 partitions via libata were not true, right?
Nope, not true. The debug option forces block layer to assign block device numbers semi randomly so that userland code paths which assume contiguos block number allocation can be easily identified. It's a feature to help debugging userland.
Oh, duh, you're right. I overlooked the "debug" part in the option. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvEfMIACgkQLPWxlyuTD7LshwCfSKsSPau3M/6mawG3G64QHU74 AEwAoIS0aaxOFYMv9bxyyo2UpoVmriTH =flxq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org