Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:11:20 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: 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: <p0510154bb8b2e65fd7fb@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203111147250.64479-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203111147250.64479-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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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)... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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