Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:10:45 -0700 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, tony@fit.qut.edu.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <199606181810.LAA09976@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 07:30:24 PDT." <7527.835108224@critter.tfs.com>
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Is symbolic link support working in devfs? I need to do little things like ln -s /dev/cuaa1 /dev/gps0 for xntpd. It was my understanding that no further development is going into devfs and that it's not ready for prime-time without symlinks and permission changes. Please tell me I'm wrong? Paul From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bug in NFS In message <199606180740.RAA14812@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >> Bruce, I am of course using the same OS on each machine. Actually I am >> using the wonderfull FreeBSD netboot system to build a diskless client >> system. Since I have no local UFS filesystems its really hard to get a >> working /dev directory. The machine still have a hard drive and I would >> like to put some swap space on it. Hope this makes things clearer. > >Use only devices which have numbers (on the server) < 64K (e.g., wd0b) >and don't manage devices from the client. Or use devfs ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, In >>c. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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