On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:37:32AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Hello! > > 0. I discovered a strange phenomenon with a Debian > Sarge installation. I am able to replicate it > on several machines. It occurs on freshly > installed machines as well as on "older" ones. > > The problem is this: > > I want to create more than 4000 device files > for a project. I am aware that this is an > uncommon scenario. But it is a customer request. > > Generating the device files works well for the > first 255 ones. Then the major number is > incremented by 1 and the minor number starts over > with 0. mknod NEVER returns an error. > > 1. I tried this with kernel 2.6.8 as well as with > kernel 2.6.16 - no change. devfs is removed. > <snip> Hi Stefan, AFAIK this issue is directly related to the kernel and would seem to be an implmentation and/or configuration issue. If you can not get it to work on an unstable kernel, then you should ask the Debian kernel folks or ask it on the debian-devel mailing list if no one answers here as well as making a bug report. Cheers, Kev ps. did you do a diff on the ubuntu kernel config to maybe get a sense if its a simple confuration issue? -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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