Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:17:46 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <35384.1015748266@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Mar 2002 19:03:08 EST." <p05101533b8b0508ebb56@[128.113.24.47]>
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In message <p05101533b8b0508ebb56@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes: >>With DEVFS and properly written drivers, this field can be >>randomly assigned and will have no practical importance to the >>kernel. This is the direction we should move. >> >>The only argument I know for expanding it would be to make the >>slight hack used to hide the dictomy between the dev_t (a pointer) >>and the userland (u)dev_t (an integer) simpler on 64bit archs. > >I don't see how this would work for OpenAFS. By that I mean that >I do not know how the dev_t-pointer that you're talking about is >used when implementing something like OpenAFS or ARLA support. I have no idea what the problem would be, so you will have to tell me before I can answer you... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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