Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:19:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: tony@fit.qut.edu.au (Tony Jago) Subject: Re: Bug in NFS Message-ID: <199606180719.JAA08133@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.92.960618152050.29374D-100000@ice.fit.qut.edu.au> from Tony Jago at "Jun 18, 96 03:25:36 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Tony Jago wrote: > Hi there, I think I have found a bug in the 2.2-current nfs code. I am > exporting the /dev directory to a client but it seem that the minor > number of the devices are changed across the nfs mount. > > On the server: > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00010002 Jun 19 00:32 /dev/wd0 > > On the client: > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 2 Jun 19 00:32 /dev/wd0 That's probably for historical reasons (where major and minor numbers were limited to 8 bits each). Does it also happen when you use NFSv3? (The NFS spec seems to use a 32-bit integer to pass the `rdev' field, so it's IMHO not strictly necessary to limit the information.) -- 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. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199606180719.JAA08133>