From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 26 23:20:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC9537B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:20:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A2043F75 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:20:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1R7KTaa003610; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:20:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Julian Elischer , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:12:47 +0200." <20030227071247.GJ487@straylight.oblivion.bg> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:20:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3609.1046330429@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message