Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:06:31 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t and major/minor split |
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Joel Becker wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:42:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>b) In order to support NFSv2 and other filesystems which only support >> a 32-bit dev_t, I suggest we stay within a (12,20)-bit range for as > > > Hmm, I guess that means dropping ext2/3 for / ;-( >
Last I checked, all traditional (inode-based) Unix filesystems, including ext2/3 used block pointers for dev_t. There are plenty of block pointers; 60 bytes worth.
-hpa
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