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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:12:47 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers.
Message-ID:  <20030227071247.GJ487@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302261449350.88133-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302261449350.88133-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want to.
> >=20
> >=20
> > 5) Remove the d_maj field from struct cdevsw entirely and make
> > dynamic allocation the default.
> >=20
> > Comments welcome.
>=20
> Sounds right to me..
> (I assume there are no NFS related gotchas)

What happens to a FreeBSD NFS server, or rather, to its clients, if the
server is rebooted and the client remounts the NFS share?  Could some
programs at the client side be confused by the suddenly changed device
major numbers?

G'luck,
Peter

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