Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 23:53:11 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <1175.835138391@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 23:48:39 %2B0200." <199606182148.XAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote in message ID <199606182148.XAA10060@uriah.heep.sax.de>: > 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. I take it one of those is meant to be NFSv2? :-) > (Gee, am i the only one reading the specs before posting? ;-) I read the include file for NFSv2 before posting. Doesn't that count? :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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