Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:55:18 +0100 (BST)

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> 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.

Alan

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