Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:13:02 -0700 From: David King <dking@ketralnis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing device files over the network Message-ID: <12FAD4D5-B3E1-4A73-84EC-17F1DFF5B5B9@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060820052629.59503.qmail@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060820052629.59503.qmail@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> Anyway this morning I was thinking under situations > where this solution is not appropriate whether it was > possible to access device files just by exporting the > /dev filesystem thro' NFS? > Will that work? Are there any gotchas? I hope everybody hasn't forgotten this thread, I'm curious about this myself... It seems like the device node would show up on the remote host like a local device node. That is, the server's major-2,minor-2 device node would, on the client, access the CLIENT's major-2,minor-2 But I hope I'm wrong, because that could be useful
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