Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:58:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Not really... some devices have a legitimate need for a sparse minor > number space. I'd be interested in how HP/UX deals with this; they've
People are generally using 12:20 for that which gives you a very sparse minor space but 32bits, so it works with things like NFS still.
> had a fairly large dev_t for aeons.
I thought HP/UX was using 32bit dev_t. I'll check once I get the cables for the HP here
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