Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-30 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hello! I just wanted to report that I finally found a way to generate more than 256 device nodes for a major device: Making a dist-upgrade to Debian Etch (testing)! To avoid any bad sideeffects that could postpone my project any further all installations have been made inside a VMware Server

Re: Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-24 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hello Kevin, I did diff my Debian kernel configuration with the one from Ubuntu. Lots of differences but nothing really in the filesystem area 8-( I found two differences worth checking: Ubuntu has no DEVFS support compiled/activated. And there was a raw files parameter set to 255. Neither

Re: Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 06:36:06PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: Hello Kevin, I did diff my Debian kernel configuration with the one from Ubuntu. Lots of differences but nothing really in the filesystem area 8-( I found two differences worth checking: Ubuntu has no DEVFS support

No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
Hello! 0. I discovered a strange phenomenon with a Debian Sarge installation. I am able to replicate it on several machines. It occurs on freshly installed machines as well as on older ones. The problem is this: I want to create more than 4000 device files for a project. I am

Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge

2006-11-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:37:32AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: Hello! 0. I discovered a strange phenomenon with a Debian Sarge installation. I am able to replicate it on several machines. It occurs on freshly installed machines as well as on older ones. The problem is this: