Re: [Gnu-arch-users] inode signature problem plague

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:56:59PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > > Bah.   I think it's just a few minutes.   Hold on a sec.
> >
> > Glad to hear it.  I was never sure *how* you intended it to be fixed. 
>
>
> I'm confused; why is it hard?  It's entirely safe to simply ignore device
> numbers altogether, they serve very little purpose.

Oh, I didn't mean that I considered it unfixable, but should there be 
compatibility between old and new revlibs?  Should anything else be 
added to compensate for the lack of device numbers?  What about file 
permissions?  Etc...

Aaron