Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:36:57 -0400

Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
> If you have a solution to the above, it can be used to fit everything
> into 32 bits. I suggest dynamic numbers with devfs, but that need not
> be the only way to solve the problem.

Dynamic numbers will break NFS guarantees when the server reboots.
[And breaking NFS was one of the big arguments for not going to 64 bits.]
Admittedly, not always -- just at the worst possible times.

A proper solution to the generic problem would be to associate a device
number with a configuration string via user space.

--
Raul




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