Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 02:24:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm |
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Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote: > > Well, exporting devices over NFS is always tricky, because if > the server isn't an identical OS, you can't even trust the numbers. As > you point out, you get the platform's idea of a device number, and that > doesn't map to your local OS.
And surely the task of mangling whatever comes off the wire into a dev_t for init_special_inode() should be private to the Linux NFS client?
Still wondering why we need to support a 16:16 encoding in [k]dev_t.
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