Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation

[Alasdair G Kergon <agk redhat com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> So we would need to strip the upper 32 bit of the numbers we see from
> udev, and handle the case where the 32 bit number wraps around.
 
Should be OK I think.  Otherwise we can append a 64-bit field to the 
struct - with care, this can be done without breaking compatibility.

Alasdair
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