Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>
> > The filesystem driver itself must convert from native rdev to linux 32:32.
>
> Look at the mknod utility.
> The user types major,minor.
> The system call uses dev_t.
> This means that user space needs to be able to combine
> major,minor into a dev_t.
But mknod64() takes major/minor. Requiring a util-linux upgrade is OK.
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