Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: Migrating to larger numbers

# Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 13:49:59 +0100

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Alan Cox wrote:

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
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.

-Paul Jakma.

paul@clubi.ie

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