Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:38:26 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <3C8E8362.B95B74C@mindspring.com> References: <60373.1015917340@critter.freebsd.dk> <p05101551b8b3c1f14df9@[128.113.24.47]> <3C8E6AC0.A51444E1@mindspring.com> <p05101558b8b426ace9ca@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > This would not be to get the fs mount type, it would be to avoid > duplicate values for st_dev. By using one byte to explicitly > indicate the "pool of numbers" one is picking values for, each > "pool" can pick whatever values it wants for the remaining bits. ((N&X) | (N&(X^0xffffffff)) := N You aren't going to get more bits by splitting up the number this way, any more than splitting something into majors and minors will do it for you. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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