From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 18 00:48:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA07361 for current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07348 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA18400; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:20:46 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA18854; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:20:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA08133; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:19:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606180719.JAA08133@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Bug in NFS To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:19:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: tony@fit.qut.edu.au (Tony Jago) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Tony Jago at "Jun 18, 96 03:25:36 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tony Jago wrote: > 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 That's probably for historical reasons (where major and minor numbers were limited to 8 bits each). Does it also happen when you use NFSv3? (The NFS spec seems to use a 32-bit integer to pass the `rdev' field, so it's IMHO not strictly necessary to limit the information.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)