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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:20:29 +0100
From:      phk@phk.freebsd.dk
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. 
Message-ID:  <3609.1046330429@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:12:47 %2B0200." <20030227071247.GJ487@straylight.oblivion.bg> 

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In message <20030227071247.GJ487@straylight.oblivion.bg>, Peter Pentchev writes
:

>What happens to a FreeBSD NFS server, or rather, to its clients, if the
>server is rebooted and the client remounts the NFS share?  Could some
>programs at the client side be confused by the suddenly changed device
>major numbers?

We should not use major/minor in filehandles, and I don't think we do.

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