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Date10 Jan 1998 22:43:00 +0200
From(Kai Henningsen)
SubjectRe: devlinks: an alternative to devfs
hagopiar@vu.union.edu (Rob Hagopian)  wrote on 08.01.98 in <Pine.LNX.3.95.980107140514.18638a-100000@vuser.vu.union.edu>:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>
> > ok. but you mix several topics (devfs has nothing to do with 8 bit minor
> > numbers).
> >
> > sorry, but i don't think that 8 bit minor numbers are a big problem.
>
> Just try adding more than 16 SCSI drives to a system. 8 bit minor numbers
> are definately a problem.

Even simpler, just try to have more than 15 partitions on a disk (not that  
unreasonable with >4G disks). That one did hit me.


MfG Kai

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