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Subject: Re: nfs v2 
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In message <20000928004901.J7553@fw.wintelcom.net>you write:
}* 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.
}

the client is FreeBSD, the mknod was done using FreeBSD, the NFS-server
if:
	is FreeBSD	then all is fine.
	if not:		all is 'almost' fine except for the special files.

im pretty sure about the almost, since the diskless is 'almost' working
as long as /dev/ is not used :-).





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