On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I updated my patch that allows to mount unholy numbers of volumes.
> The old version was for 2.4.9 and did not apply anymore.
> I split the unnamed majors patch and the NFS patch.
> Also, CONFIG_ option is gone, because it made the code ugly.
>
> Majors part:
> http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.4.19-pre7-unmaj.diff
> NFS part:
> http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.4.19-pre7-nores.diff
> Userland for NFS:
> http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/util-linux-2.11q-nores1.diff
>
> Is anyone actually interested? Random people periodically ask
> me for patches, get them and disappear into the void. I hear
> nothing good or bad (well, nothing since Trond reviewed it
> several months ago, and also someone found a conflict with NFS
> server code, since fixed). I am thinking about submitting,
> but if users do not ask, why add extra bloat and negotiate
> with LANANA...
I've got quite a few users here who "need" this functionality and it's
included in our RH-based custom kernels. Having it as a separate patch
for 2.4 is no problem, for 2.5 I'm hoping we finally move to 32bit device
numbers...
- Panu -
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