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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:55:18PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:12:17PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:30:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 32-bit dev_t is an important (and very late!) thing to get into the 2.5
> > > stream.  Can we put this ahead of cleanup stuff?
> > 
> > Can we get people to agree that this will even go into 2.5, due to the
> > lateness of it?  I didn't think it was going to happen.
> 
> 	This is essential.  There are installations using >1000 disks

and?  we still have tons of free block majors..

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