Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:30:37 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > > Wouldn't devfs make devices-on-foofs completely unnecessary ? > > > > Of course not. > > Why not? Assuming all your drivers have devfs support, you don't need > device support in your filesystems.
1. If I want to play with my device configuration from the other box (eg when debugging installers) - minor
2. Serving device files to another node with NFSv3. With v3 we tell the other end our major/minor split and if its 64bit it breaks. (There are obvious approaches to the latter since we know clients would be 32bit)
You certainly cover 99.9% of sane cases
Alan
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