Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Lots of SCSI-disks, how?! | Date | Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:09:03 +0100 (BST) |
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> > So now we have > > mount /devfs/xxyyzz /usr > > which uses a dynamic (16 bit) major/minor number. > > BAD idea. Think about nfs. You do not want to change all major/minor > numbers just because one scsi disk is in flames and so it failed to > boot :-).
NFSv3 addresses a lot of these issues, up to 32bit dev_t anyway
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