[sclug] Idle curiosity about device naming limits

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Will Dickson wrote:

> It strikes me that, with the current explosion of nifty mass-storage systems 
> which all use SCSI and / or SCSI emulation (SATA RAIDs, USB mass-storage 
> devices etc.) one could end up with /dev/sd[a-z] all being occupied. Does 
> anybody happen to know what the next device to be plugged in would be called?

Unlikely. According to linux/Documentation/devices.txt, you can have upto
256 logical SCSI disks (hardware RAIDs generally present all the discs in an
array as a single logical SCSI device), the last named /dev/sdiv.

> Will.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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