>>> If you have a solution to the above, it can be used to fit everything
>>> into 32 bits. I suggest dynamic numbers with devfs, but that need not
>>> be the only way to solve the problem.
>>
>> Dynamic numbers will break NFS guarantees when the server reboots.
Huh? You don't even need to serve device files over the network.
The /dev filesystem exists only in client memory.
If you want to serve a real /dev for older clients, you still have ext2.
>> A proper solution to the generic problem would be to associate a device
>> number with a configuration string via user space.
That won't help you at boot. Hacks like initrd might work, but they
also make Linux more complicated.
> Devfs doesn't mean dynamic device numbers.
Not necessarily, but it can support them better than the current system can.
Trying to do dynamic device numbers and/or names with the current system
is a bad joke.
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