Phillip Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>+ unsigned int s_major:16; > >>+ unsigned int s_minor:16; > > > > > > What's going on here? s_minor's not big enough for modern minor > > numbers. > > > > What is the modern size then?
10 bits of major, 20 bits of minor. As this is an on-disk thing, you're kinda stuck. A number of filesystems have this problem. We used tricks in the inode to support it in ext2 and ext3. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
