Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 23:48:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <199606182148.XAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <29466.835110719@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "Jun 18, 96 04:11:59 pm"
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As Gary Palmer wrote: > 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. NFSv3 uses 32 bits for the major and minor number, NFSv3 uses 2x32 bits. (Gee, am i the only one reading the specs before posting? ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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