On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:06:31PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Last I checked, all traditional (inode-based) Unix filesystems,
> including ext2/3 used block pointers for dev_t. There are plenty of
> block pointers; 60 bytes worth.
They do indeed. But ext2/3 touches that block pointer with
cpu_to_le32() and friends. It needs fixing at best, and compatability
work for already existing partitions.
Joel
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