Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

[Andrew Morton]

Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>+	unsigned int		s_major:16;
>  >>+	unsigned int		s_minor:16;
>  > 
>  > 
>  > What's going on here? s_minor's not big enough for modern minor
>  > numbers.
>  > 
> 
>  What is the modern size then?

10 bits of major, 20 bits of minor.

As this is an on-disk thing, you're kinda stuck.  A number of filesystems
have this problem.  We used tricks in the inode to support it in ext2 and
ext3.
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