Re: Migrating to larger numbers
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:16:14 +1000
Alan Cox writes:
> > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > > 64bit dev_t's are going to cause some real problems. I would suggest you
> > > try passing a 64bit dev_t over NFS - especially to non unix clients before
> > > you do this.
> >
> > Wouldn't devfs make devices-on-foofs completely unnecessary ?
>
> Of course not.
Why not? Assuming all your drivers have devfs support, you don't need
device support in your filesystems.
Regards,
Richard....
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