From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Mar 11 16:14:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A843C37B416 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0501.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.246] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16kZvt-0005IV-00; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:14:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8D4850.B12087C2@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:14:08 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Julian Elischer , Poul-Henning Kamp , Harti Brandt , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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)... Copying disks ends up still being a problem. 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message