Re: Migrating to larger numbers
Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:20:53 -0400
> > (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.
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> NFS device files are interpreted by the _client_ not the server.
Sure, and?
--
Raul
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