On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
> : > We have already been down this road of discussion some time ago and came to
> : > the conclusion that reusing higher bits of the minor number for further
> : > partitions was perfectly acceptable.
> :
> : who is the "we" that has had this discussion before?
> 
> The developer group around the time dev_t was expanded to 32 bits.  This
> was early in 1998.
> 
> : could you point me to the thread in the mailing list archives?
> 
> I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader, because it's been so long as
> that I no longer remember the subject lines.

We actually discussed using 6 bits for partitions, which would give us
64. This was also discussed about a year ago. Leo and I were big
participants in the thread.

Take care,

Bill