Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | 10 Jan 1998 22:43:00 +0200 | | From | (Kai Henningsen) | | Subject | Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs |
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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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