Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Mar 27 2008 - 15:05:30 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:26:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well, when dealing with shell scripts a O(n) very easily becomes O(n^2).
> For the stuff that I, personally, do, it's not a big deal, but people
> with large number of disks have serious gripes with our boot times.

This should be a solved problem with scsi_mod.scan=async (or equivalent
compile option). Are people still complaining about it, and if so, have
they tried this option?

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