Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:20:14 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <200203111420.g2BEKEr06720@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <96479.1015833733@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <p05101539b8b186d47384@[128.113.24.47]>
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In article <96479.1015833733@critter.freebsd.dk> you write: >I'm missing something here, unless README is a device, st_dev >has no meaning, no ? You're confusing st_dev and st_rdev. st_rdev is the device that the file *is* (iff the stat buffer represents a block or character special file); st_dev is the device (or more accurately, identifies the filesystem) that the file is *on*. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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