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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 tools lvmcmdline.c major and minor number limits
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:36:03PM +0000, Darren Lavender wrote:
> I think the interest is _only_ in the minor number but I noticed that I
> had to specify --major at the command line or I received an error:
 
The validation probably broke at some stage.  One day someone might port the
multiple major number support from 2.4 to 2.6, but there doesn't seem to be any
demand for it.

Alasdair
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