* Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000927 23:36] wrote:
> hi,
> with 4.1: there seems to be a problem with nfs2 mounts to
> non freebsd hosts:
> mainly, the special files - eg /dev/null - show up as something like
> 0 crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0, 0x00200002 Sep 28 09:29 /mnt/tmp/null
>
> it's ok if the exporting os is freebsd, but so far: netapp, procom, bsdi
> all show up to freebsd as 0, 0x00200002! btw, the problem is not with ls,
>
> loo> date > /mnt/tmp/null
> /mnt/tmp/null: Device not configured.
> loo>
>
>
> needless to say, this is screwing up my diskless project.
I'm pretty sure that device major/minor are not same across different
systems.
I would use an MFS or a vn device created from a FreeBSD UFS over NFS.
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