Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271612AbTGQW43 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:56:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271609AbTGQW43 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:56:29 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:1548 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271604AbTGQW4W (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:56:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:11:15 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Andries Brouwer , Andrew Morton , miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] print_dev_t for 2.6.0-test1-mm Message-ID: <20030718011115.A2600@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <20030716184609.GA1913@kroah.com> <20030717014410.A2026@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030716164917.2a7a46f4.akpm@osdl.org> <20030717122600.A2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717131955.D2302@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717145507.3ce5042c.akpm@osdl.org> <20030718002451.A2569@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030717224307.GF19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030717224307.GF19891@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>; from Joel.Becker@oracle.com on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:43:08PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 989 Lines: 22 On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:43:08PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:24:51AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Premise: some filesystems or archives store 32 bits. > > Conclusion: we must be able to handle that. > > This is unrelated to the kernel, unrelated to system calls, > > it is related to . > > How does linux handle that today? IIRC, it ignores the high > 16bits and treats that 32bit number as 8:8. That is what happens today, > for every filesystem, whether it stores 32 or 16 bits. > Why expand that? We can continue to treat 32bit numbers (eg, > from NFSv2) as 16bit numbers. :-) A surprising question. Why expand that? Because we would like to use more than 16 bits in device numbers. - 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/