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From: Tony Jago <tony@fit.qut.edu.au>
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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: Bug in NFS
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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
>
> 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. ;-)

 I am using NFSv3 in fact after a bit of testing that seems to be the
 problem!!! If I use NFSv2 then it works fine. I smell a bug....


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