On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote: ..... >> D. Treat every volume as a separate filesystem, like kafs does. >> While this has some advantages, it also has some serious >> disadvantages. I also have a vague recollection of coming up >> with a reason at one point why this model is fatally flawed.
I am guessing here, but at least in kernels before 2.6 the maximum number of minor device numbers was limited to 255 (with 2.6, that is now 2^20). Also, all anonymous file systems share the same major number (so the 255 was shared between afs, nfs, /proc, etc).... Of course, you may actually have a different (and better) reason for the fatal flaw. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
