> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>
> > ok. but you mix several topics (devfs has nothing to do with 8 bit minor
> > numbers).
> >
> > sorry, but i don't think that 8 bit minor numbers are a big problem.
>
> Just try adding more than 16 SCSI drives to a system. 8 bit minor numbers
> are definately a problem.
Even simpler, just try to have more than 15 partitions on a disk (not that
unreasonable with >4G disks). That one did hit me.
MfG Kai