Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:58:09 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, tony@fit.qut.edu.au Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <199606180658.QAA13025@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Hi there, I think I have found a bug in the 2.2-current nfs code. I am > exporting the /dev directory to a client but it seem that the minor > number of the devices are changed across the nfs mount. > On the server: > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00010002 Jun 19 00:32 /dev/wd0 > On the client: > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 2 Jun 19 00:32 /dev/wd0 NFS only supports 16-bit device numbers so it can't possibly preserve 32-bit device numbers if the high bits are actually used. This is the problem here. More fundamentally, device numbers aren't portable across OS's, so they shouldn't be exported. Bruce
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