Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:30:37 +0100 (BST)

> > > 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.

1. If I want to play with my device configuration from the other box
(eg when debugging installers) - minor

2. Serving device files to another node with NFSv3. With v3 we tell
the other end our major/minor split and if its 64bit it breaks.
(There are obvious approaches to the latter since we know clients
would be 32bit)

You certainly cover 99.9% of sane cases

Alan

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