Re: Minor numbers

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 14 May 2001 17:57:00 +0100 (BST)

> That is not more common. Around us we see major:minor splits
> 8:24, 12:20, 14:18. If we want to use NFSv3 and communicate
> with all these systems we would do wise to use 32:32.

My error. 32:32 is however not interesting. The fs and stat structs
are set up to allow 32bits. 64bits is a major exercise

>

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