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Re: Re: No more than 255 device files with Debian Sarge



On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 06:36:06PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
> 
> I did diff my Debian kernel configuration with the one from
> Ubuntu. Lots of differences but nothing really in the filesystem
> area 8-(
> 
> I found two differences worth checking: Ubuntu has no DEVFS
> support compiled/activated. And there was a raw files parameter
> set to 255. Neither throwing out DEVFS nor increasing the raw
> file number to 8192 did help...
> 
> Problem is that the driver concept of one of our projects
> depends on the ability to generate more than 255 minor
> numbers. Sigh...
> 
> Thanks anyhow for your reply!
> 
> Greetings,
Hi Stefan,
I went to #debian-kernel on irc.debian.org and this is not an issue for
an testing or unstable system like mine. 2.6.8 was the debian kernel and
2.6.16 is not an official one (maybe backports.org or your own). In
either case, I have not tested a chroot with a sarge kenel, but this
issue is related to your system and not the current ones. It is either
specific to the sarge kernel or some other issue of your system. I may
try to try a chroot with a sarge kerel to see if I can reproduce it. 
HTH,
Kev
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