Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:35:38 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > I'd give NFSv2 another 30 years. I believe NFSv4 draft is also 32bit
The advantage of 64 bits is that you can have relatively sparser device numbers. [SCSI bus addressing comes to mind as an example where this would be good.]
I wonder if it might be possible to do something special for NFS, like maybe make for NFS consumption a special file system where specific 64 bit device numbers are mapped into a 32 bit range... [And didn't I already see some posts about device number aliasing?]
It might be good, from a security standpoint, to arrange things so no devices can be exported over NFS without proper aliases.
-- Raul
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