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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t 
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I mean, not as a static permanent thing as it is now
teh new dev_t will be meaningful only in the short term
and need not be expanded.


On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203091442340.54954-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
> lian Elischer writes:
> 
> >dev_t will not exist in 6.0
> 
> It's standards mandated.
> 
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