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SubjectRe: Larger dev_t and major/minor split
Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:42:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>b) In order to support NFSv2 and other filesystems which only support
>> a 32-bit dev_t, I suggest we stay within a (12,20)-bit range for as
>
>
> Hmm, I guess that means dropping ext2/3 for / ;-(
>

Last I checked, all traditional (inode-based) Unix filesystems,
including ext2/3 used block pointers for dev_t. There are plenty of
block pointers; 60 bytes worth.

-hpa

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