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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:09:02 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Larger dev_t and major/minor split
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:42:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> b) In order to support NFSv2 and other filesystems which only support
>    a 32-bit dev_t, I suggest we stay within a (12,20)-bit range for as

	Hmm, I guess that means dropping ext2/3 for / ;-(

Joel

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