Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:01:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server Message-ID: <200101162201.f0GM1fl02021@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:17:35 EST." <20010116161735.A34527@vger.bsdhome.com>
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> However, this was done with an NFS V3 mount and as you observed,
> FreeBSD uses NFSv2 for the root. After repeating this same same
> procedure using an NVSv2 mount to the Netapp, the major/minor numbers
> look a whole lot better and it now works just fine.
>
> It's odd, though, that the NFSv2 and NFSv3 handle these aspects of of
> the inode so differently. I wonder if this is a bug, and if so, is it
> Netapp's or ours? It is interesting to note that this mangling does
> not occur when FreeBSD is both the client and the server.
It's a "feature" of the way that the NetApp box stores the major/minor
numbers, and not really a bug per se. FreeBSD has somewhat different
expectations of major/minor number storage as compared to some other
platforms, and the interactions are not well defined.
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