Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:22:04 +0100 (BST)


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.)

--Stephen

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