Re: Migrating to larger numbers
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:29:51 +1000
Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:57:27 +1000, Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
> said:
>
> > Could please explain what the need is to export devices across NFS is?
>
> NFS root filesystems. The client still needs a /dev even if running
> diskless. (And no, I don't want this to turn into a discussion on
> the merits of devfs! There are still Unixen which don't have that.)
Yes, but, IIRC, the discussion was about exporting devfs over NFS,
particularly if you have automagic device number generation.
But you can have devfs on your NFS server and still export a plain old
FS with hand-crafted device nodes.
Regards,
Richard....
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