Re: Issue with limitation of 256 minors per major in LiS 2.16 on Linu x 2.4

At 10:27 AM 10/7/2004, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
>Dave,
>
>What about non-clone devices?  (Well, I suppose I should just look at the
>code instead of asking, but I haven't dug into 2.17 yet...)  On Linux
>Fast-STREAMS I used the inode number (32 bit) in a shadow special filesystem
>to represent the device and there can be the full 32-bit range of real
>(non-clone) devices.

The problem with non-clone devices is getting the visible entry into the 
/dev directory.  I think you are stuck with the 8/8 convention there since 
that is dictated by the ext2 file system.  Or am I missing something?

In other words, I don't think that you could produce something in /dev that 
would look like this with an ls -l:

crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     1100, 2134 Oct  5 11:45 loop.2134

-- Dave