Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 1999 22:58:34 -0400 | | From | Wakko Warner <> | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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> > I wonder if it might be possible to do something special for NFS, like > > maybe make for NFS consumption a special file system where specific 64 > > bit device numbers are mapped into a 32 bit range... [And didn't I > > already see some posts about device number aliasing?] > > Nobody else has needed more than 32bits. Show me a case it is needed and > an OS that suffers from using 32bits. Then you can argue about ruining NFS > interoperability for the sake of some airy number guessing.
On a side note, what happens if say 32bits were implemented (as it's currently IIRC 16 bit. 8bit major 8bit minor) as 12bit:20bit and you have an older nfs client (say about .2 or .4 kernel versions prior. I'm talking minor kernel version, not patch) looking in /dev on the server? I use on occasion, /dev/dsp off a server (this is the way I have a game setup that runs entirely over nfs)
What would happen, would the nfs server realize it has an old client and mask the major/minor?
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