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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:23:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203111621240.65225-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C8D4850.B12087C2@mindspring.com>

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that could be detected and fixed..

the last time I copied a disk exectly I was puting it on a differnet
machine..
it only has to be unique for that machine.
the network considers the machine as part of the device ID.
If you have it on the same machine you probably are replacing a suspect
drive in which case you are doing the right thing,
if you want both drives on at once, just add 1 to one of them.
(and write it back).


On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 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
> 


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