In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
}* 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.
}
the client is FreeBSD, the mknod was done using FreeBSD, the NFS-server
if:
is FreeBSD then all is fine.
if not: all is 'almost' fine except for the special files.
im pretty sure about the almost, since the diskless is 'almost' working
as long as /dev/ is not used :-).
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