Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:56:30 +0100 (BST)

> 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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