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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Bug in NFS 
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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In message <199606180740.RAA14812@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>  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.

Or use devfs ?

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