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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, tony@fit.qut.edu.au
Subject: Re: Bug in NFS
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>  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.

Use only devices which have numbers (on the server) < 64K (e.g., wd0b)
and don't manage devices from the client.

Bruce