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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:49:01 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nfs v2
Message-ID:  <20000928004901.J7553@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <E13eXIS-0000dd-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>; from danny@cs.huji.ac.il on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:35:56AM %2B0300
References:  <E13eXIS-0000dd-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>

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* Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> [000927 23:36] wrote:
> hi,
> 	with 4.1: there seems to be a problem with nfs2 mounts to
> non freebsd hosts:
> mainly, the special files - eg /dev/null - show up as something like
> 	0 crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    0, 0x00200002 Sep 28 09:29 /mnt/tmp/null
> 
> it's ok if the exporting os is freebsd, but so far: netapp, procom, bsdi
> all show up to freebsd as 0, 0x00200002! btw, the problem is not with ls,
> 
> loo> date >  /mnt/tmp/null
> /mnt/tmp/null: Device not configured.
> loo>
> 
> 
> needless to say, this is screwing up my diskless project.

I'm pretty sure that device major/minor are not same across different
systems.

I would use an MFS or a vn device created from a FreeBSD UFS over NFS.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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