From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 18 15:04:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02036 for current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01995 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA27297 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 00:04:03 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA27432 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 00:04:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA10060 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 23:48:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606182148.XAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Bug in NFS To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 23:48:39 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <29466.835110719@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "Jun 18, 96 04:11:59 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Palmer wrote: > This is probably because NFS can't handle ``large'' major/minor > numbers (my guess is that they are truncated down to 8 bits for > encoding into the structure passed back and forth). Just like you > can't do 4.4BSD ``flags'' (see chflags(1)) over NFS. NFSv3 uses 32 bits for the major and minor number, NFSv3 uses 2x32 bits. (Gee, am i the only one reading the specs before posting? ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)