Re: LVM/Device mapper breaks with -mm (was: Re: 2.5.66-mm1)

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:52:28PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > We also should iron out our representations.  eg, hpa's
> > recommendation for 64bits, or the 12/20 split for 32bit, or etc.
> 
> There is no hurry. These changes are just editing a few lines
> in kdev_t.h. I tend to prefer 64 bits, like hpa.
> Maybe I should send another patch tonight, just for playing.

	Please, I'd like that.  It does actually matter, because glibc
and mknod (to name a couple) have to pass a proper dev_t for the new
format (glibc actually does an explicit conversion to 8:8 in
sysdeps/sysv/linux/xmkmod.c, which we need to fix to the proper
mapping).
	Stuff like that.

Joel


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