Re: Larger dev_t and major/minor split

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:06:31PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Last I checked, all traditional (inode-based) Unix filesystems,
> including ext2/3 used block pointers for dev_t.  There are plenty of
> block pointers; 60 bytes worth.

	They do indeed.  But ext2/3 touches that block pointer with
cpu_to_le32() and friends.  It needs fixing at best, and compatability
work for already existing partitions.

Joel

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