Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:29:28 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Jago <tony@fit.qut.edu.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.92.960618172529.29374F-100000@ice.fit.qut.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199606180658.QAA13025@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > 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 > > > 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 > Bruce, I am of course using the same OS on each machine. Actually I am using the wonderfull FreeBSD netboot system to build a diskless client system. Since I have no local UFS filesystems its really hard to get a working /dev directory. The machine still have a hard drive and I would like to put some swap space on it. Hope this makes things clearer. --- Tony Jago, System Administrator, E-Mail: T.Jago@fit.qut.edu.au Faculty of Information Technology, Web: http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/staff/~tony Queensland University of Technology. Box 2434, Brisbane 4001, AUSTRALIA. "We need more horsepower!" Phone: +61 7 3864-2573 Fax: +61 7 3864-1959
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