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Subject: Re: Bug in NFS
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 02:35:29 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199606180740.RAA14812@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 18, 96 05:40:22 pm
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 or use DEVFS on the client
> 
> 
> >  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
>