Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:48:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org, bde@zeta.org.au, tony@fit.qut.edu.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <199606182148.OAA03615@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199606181810.LAA09976@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Jun 18, 96 11:10:45 am
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> > > Is symbolic link support working in devfs? > > I need to do little things like ln -s /dev/cuaa1 /dev/gps0 > for xntpd. > > It was my understanding that no further development is going into devfs and > that it's not ready for prime-time without symlinks and permission changes. > Please tell me I'm wrong? you are wrong.. the following items need to be done in DEVSF 1/ there is a problem in vnode allocation that canresult in crashes. 2/ symlink support needs to be added.. it's kinda trivial, but needs to be done 3/ I think I want to add support for named pipes, as Iconsider them to be "pseudo devices" and they are often made in /dev. also not rocket science. also takes time... (what's that?) > > Paul > > From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: Bug in NFS > 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 ? > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. > http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. > whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, In > >>c. > Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so. >
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