Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:16:14 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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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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