Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:14:57 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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.
The SCSI people are the main people that have asked for it.
Note that I didn't say that we should do this... I only said let's keep the remaining bits in our back pocket as spares; I wasn't proposing we would actively use them.
-hpa
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