Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdevt-diff | Date | 16 Apr 2003 09:48:16 -0700 |
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Followup to: <200304142218.h3EMIKIO017775@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> By author: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > --==_Exmh_-1812532000P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:11:10 PDT, Joel Becker said: > > > I guess I'm wondering what made you choose "consistency across > > legacy filesystems" over "consistency across our expanded device space". > > I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that being able to > boot using the /dev on an iso9660 CD is a requirement for most distros? >
Not really, but it's certainly a nice capability. However, iso9660 (RockRidge, actually) has 64 bits of dev_t space; it's actually split into two 32-bit entries specified as "high 32 bits" and "low 32 bits."
I'm not positive if Linux expects those to contain major:minor or 0:<16-bit-dev_t>.
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