From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 11 6:20:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E1637B41E for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 06:20:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.6) id g2BEKEr06720; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:20:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:20:14 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200203111420.g2BEKEr06720@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t In-Reply-To: <96479.1015833733@critter.freebsd.dk> References: Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <96479.1015833733@critter.freebsd.dk> you write: >I'm missing something here, unless README is a device, st_dev >has no meaning, no ? You're confusing st_dev and st_rdev. st_rdev is the device that the file *is* (iff the stat buffer represents a block or character special file); st_dev is the device (or more accurately, identifies the filesystem) that the file is *on*. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message