From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 13:47:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF8237B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:47:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0GM1fl02021; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:01:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200101162201.f0GM1fl02021@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brian Dean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:17:35 EST." <20010116161735.A34527@vger.bsdhome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:01:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message