From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT] more kdev_t-ectomy
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:54:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA36B88.3070208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200304210132.h3L1WY215924.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>
> That is something private to the NFS code.
> The standard leaves the structure undefined, so whatever we do is OK.
> It seems reasonable to allow some mount option to specify
> whether the other side is Solaris-like, with 8:8 / 14:18,
> or FreeBSD-like, with 8:24, or Linux like ...
>
> Filesystems that are offered more dev_t bits than they can handle
> must just return -EOVERFLOW.
>
Yes. It seems useful to centralize this, though.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-21 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-21 1:32 [CFT] more kdev_t-ectomy Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 3:54 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2003-04-20 23:56 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-21 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-21 0:35 ` viro
2003-04-20 21:58 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 22:35 ` viro
2003-04-20 21:17 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-20 21:26 ` viro
2003-04-20 13:31 viro
2003-04-20 15:26 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-04-20 16:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-04-20 19:24 ` viro
2003-04-20 21:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
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