Re: [PATCH] stat: don't fail if the major number is >= 256

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 07:37:44PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Realistically, nobody uses it. Apparently your OpenWatcom use is also
> really just fairly theoretical, not some "this app is used by people
> and doesn't work with a filesystem on NVMe".

And that is easily fixed by using a lower major for the block dynamic
dev_t.  In theory userspace should be able to copy with any major for
it, but I fear something might break so we could make it configurable.