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SubjectRe: Migrating to larger numbers
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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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