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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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