On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:42:49 -0700
"Stephen Pollei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Just out of curiosity, what system is this that has at least 8 slots?
>
> I found a few links from an email I sent to some people in June, 2005 ...
> I think 16 local users each having own monitor, keyboard, and mouse is
> about the most I've heard of.
>
> Of course I think Linux is still encoding major/minor number into a
> single 32bit number using 12 bits for major, and 20 bits for minor.
> Thats 4096 possibilities for major number and 1,048,576 for minor.
> They most likely would want you to use your own major number therefore
> you can have far more minor numbers than you could use at this point.
Actualy, you only get a range of minor numbers these days.
The days where a major number had to be assigned per device are over.
Attila Kinali
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