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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:32:36 -0400
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@welho.com>
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Subject: Re: 1279 mounts
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> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:25:33 +0300 (EEST)
> From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@welho.com>

> I've got quite a few users here who "need" this functionality and it's 
> included in our RH-based custom kernels. Having it as a separate patch 
> for 2.4 is no problem, for 2.5 I'm hoping we finally move to 32bit device 
> numbers...

Mind, we only ship the unnamed majors part, but not the NFS part.
There is no word from util-linux maintainer about required
changes to mount(8), so I was cautious about doint that.

-- Pete
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