Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:14:08 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, 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: <3C8D4850.B12087C2@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203111147250.64479-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <p0510154bb8b2e65fd7fb@[128.113.24.47]>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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