Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:47:01 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> that 32+32 device nodes can only be exported over NFSv3. > If we change to 64-bit immediately, but leave the high order half > zero at first then all is fine. When people need more than 32 bits > they'll also have to upgrade to NFSv3. Reasonable enough.]
This sounds reasonable. Amongst other things the only case I can conceive we need the top 32bits is big clusters, where the upper bits will be ideal for node id
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