Re: [CFT] more kdev_t-ectomy

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:54:48 -0700

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Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>
> That is something private to the NFS code.
> The standard leaves the structure undefined, so whatever we do is OK.
> It seems reasonable to allow some mount option to specify
> whether the other side is Solaris-like, with 8:8 / 14:18,
> or FreeBSD-like, with 8:24, or Linux like ...
>
> Filesystems that are offered more dev_t bits than they can handle
> must just return -EOVERFLOW.
>

Yes. It seems useful to centralize this, though.

-hpa

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