On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 05:19, Andrew Basterfield wrote: > > I would extend the kernel to handle more, just like RedHat do now, and > > did previously when the limit was 16. > > And then you hope Linus doesn't allocate your new SCSI block numbers He won't; he isn't. > I believe NFS mounted filesystems don't have conventional device > numbers. Rather than arguing, find out how -xdev works, and how Unix filehandles are generated. > The point was that 'find' seemed to be perfectly happy on an NFS > filesystem That's right; it is. And it can tell the difference between the various filesystems. If you don't believe me that this is a problem, go read the devfs FAQ rather than argue with me. Cheers, Alex.
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