Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:12:47 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <20030227071247.GJ487@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302261449350.88133-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302261449350.88133-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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--Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want to. > >=20 > >=20 > > 5) Remove the d_maj field from struct cdevsw entirely and make > > dynamic allocation the default. > >=20 > > Comments welcome. >=20 > Sounds right to me.. > (I assume there are no NFS related gotchas) What happens to a FreeBSD NFS server, or rather, to its clients, if the server is rebooted and the client remounts the NFS share? Could some programs at the client side be confused by the suddenly changed device major numbers? G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If wishes were fishes, the antecedent of this conditional would be true. --Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Xbpv7Ri2jRYZRVMRApcBAJwKysX30K1UABHhu38kzL53h9O8LQCdHw6O VQHfj41OA4Fi44E5aTL2PJg= =vfHa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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