Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6

[Frank Steiner]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> If having /dev mounted read-only means you cannot open devices
> like /dev/console read/write then that is a bug in the NFS client
> in the kernel.

Which matches the fact the it works with server running 2.6 and
client running 2.4.

> On all other filesystems (ext2, ext3, xfs etc) there's no problem
> opening devices r/w on a read-only filesystem.

Should I report that as bug to someone special?

cu,
Frank


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