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SubjectRe: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing
Hi,

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

You must have overlooked some of my questions:

How are these disks registered and how will the dev_t number look like?
How will the user know about these numbers?
Who creates these device entries (user or daemon)?

> > How is backward compatibility done, so that I can still boot a 2.4 kernel?
>
> Old device numbers remain valid, so all changes are completely
> transparent.

SCSI has multiple majors, disks 0-15 are at major 8, disks 16-31 are at
65, ...., disks 112-127 are at major 71. Will this stay the same? Where
are the disk 128-xxx?
Can I have now more than 15 partitions?

bye, Roman

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