Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271351AbTGQINt (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:13:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271354AbTGQINt (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:13:49 -0400 Received: from inet-mail3.oracle.com ([148.87.2.203]:26595 "EHLO inet-mail3.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271351AbTGQINs (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:13:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:27:17 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andries Brouwer , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-ID: <20030717082716.GA19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Andries Brouwer , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030716130915.035a13ca.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716210253.GD2279@kroah.com> <20030716141320.5bd2a8b3.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716213451.GA1964@win.tue.nl> <20030716143902.4b26be70.akpm@osdl.org> <20030716222015.GB1964@win.tue.nl> <20030716152143.6ab7d7d3.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717014410.A2026@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 943 Lines: 27 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:49:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Please describe a scenario in which a filesystem which works on current > kernels will, in a 64-bit-dev_t kernel, call init_special_inode() with a > 16:16 encoded device number. Perhaps he's thinking of NFSv2. If you want to make a device bigger than 8:8... Personally, I'm happy to ignore NFSv2 for this. If we did support a 32bit median format, I would suggest we either use Peter's strategy or we use 12:20. 16:16 is so limiting. Joel -- "War doesn't determine who's right; war determines who's left." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/