Re: Migrating to larger numbers
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:46:13 +0100 (BST)
> (3) The NFS server gets taken down for a few minutes and disks get added
> to it. [This is the case where the semantics of the device numbers
> become significant.]
>
> NFS semantics suggest that the application freeze while the server
> is unavailable, and everything continue on after it comes back up.
NFS device files are interpreted by the _client_ not the server.
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