From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Larger dev_t and major/minor split
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:09:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030320220901.GR2835@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5dckh$lv1$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:42:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> b) In order to support NFSv2 and other filesystems which only support
> a 32-bit dev_t, I suggest we stay within a (12,20)-bit range for as
Hmm, I guess that means dropping ext2/3 for / ;-(
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-20 21:42 Larger dev_t and major/minor split H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-20 22:09 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-03-20 23:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-20 23:49 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-21 0:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-20 22:47 ` Greg KH
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