Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:11:59 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Tony Jago <tony@fit.qut.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <29466.835110719@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:25:36 %2B1000." <Pine.HPP.3.92.960618152050.29374D-100000@ice.fit.qut.edu.au>
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Tony Jago wrote in message ID <Pine.HPP.3.92.960618152050.29374D-100000@ice.fit.qut.edu.au>: > > Hi there, I think I have found a bug in the 2.2-current nfs code. I am > exporting the /dev directory to a client but it seem that the minor > number of the devices are changed across the nfs mount. > > On the server: > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00010002 Jun 19 00:32 /dev/wd0 > > On the client: > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 2 Jun 19 00:32 /dev/wd0 > > Thanks in advance for your help. This is probably because NFS can't handle ``large'' major/minor numbers (my guess is that they are truncated down to 8 bits for encoding into the structure passed back and forth). Just like you can't do 4.4BSD ``flags'' (see chflags(1)) over NFS. (You have to remember that NFS v2 came about BEFORE people started needing lots of these ``new'' features, and it can't cope ... ) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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