Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:56:30 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 2. Serving device files to another node with NFSv3. With v3 we tell > the other end our major/minor split and if its 64bit it breaks. > (There are obvious approaches to the latter since we know > clients > would be 32bit) > > but if you're using devfs why would you ever need to do the above? Devfs
You dont have any choice. NFS says "it happens".
> will already populate the virtual /dev on a diskless client with the > appropriate files for the drivers the kernel supports. > > No need to mount /dev over nfs anymore.
You have to handle NFSv3 serving to non Linux clients. And as I said the obvious approach is to lie and claim to be using 12:20
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