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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, tony@fit.qut.edu.au,
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Subject: Re: Bug in NFS 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 07:30:24 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:10:45 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.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 ?
  
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