From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <868vv362nm.fsf@cmarib.ramside> References: <8662qej52i.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <86d3km6qz0.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <868vv362nm.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:43:04 -0700 Message-ID: From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d1db5730-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:32 AM, wrote: > I got the impression, from what I read, that the kernel driver chooses > the device number. what's a device number and why would we need one? ron