Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:55:18 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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?]
Nobody else has needed more than 32bits. Show me a case it is needed and an OS that suffers from using 32bits. Then you can argue about ruining NFS interoperability for the sake of some airy number guessing.
Alan
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