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SubjectRe: Migrating to larger numbers
Alan Cox writes:
> > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > > 64bit dev_t's are going to cause some real problems. I would suggest you
> > > try passing a 64bit dev_t over NFS - especially to non unix clients before
> > > you do this.
> >
> > Wouldn't devfs make devices-on-foofs completely unnecessary ?
>
> Of course not.

Why not? Assuming all your drivers have devfs support, you don't need
device support in your filesystems.

Regards,

Richard....

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