From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 11 15:11:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB85637B416 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:11:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2BNBLrT147966; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:11:22 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:11:20 -0500 To: Julian Elischer From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Harti Brandt , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 11:50 AM -0800 3/11/02, Julian Elischer wrote: >I suggest that we create such a number and store it in >the filesystem superblock for filesystems in questions. >maybe the time of creation in secs since the epoch. >(is that already there?) it has the advantage of >following the drive if it were renamed.. I do like this idea for drives though, especially for removable-storage devices (which might include firewire hard drives, for instance)... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message