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> Anyway this morning I was thinking under situations
> where this solution is not appropriate whether it was
> possible to access device files just by exporting the
> /dev filesystem thro' NFS?
> Will that work? Are there any gotchas?

I hope everybody hasn't forgotten this thread, I'm curious about this  
myself...

It seems like the device node would show up on the remote host like a  
local device node. That is, the server's major-2,minor-2 device node  
would, on the client, access the CLIENT's major-2,minor-2

But I hope I'm wrong, because that could be useful