Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Well, exporting devices over NFS is always tricky, because if
> the server isn't an identical OS, you can't even trust the numbers. As
> you point out, you get the platform's idea of a device number, and that
> doesn't map to your local OS.
And surely the task of mangling whatever comes off the wire into a dev_t for
init_special_inode() should be private to the Linux NFS client?
Still wondering why we need to support a 16:16 encoding in [k]dev_t.
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