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- From: rriv@oural.inria.fr (Robert Riviere)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: NFS, /dev
- Keywords: NFS, mounting /dev
- Message-ID: <36694@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 11:11:53 GMT
- References: <Dec.11.19.30.18.1992.7849@remus.rutgers.edu> <BzBJA2.Apn@austin.ibm.com>
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- Organization: Cermics/Inria-Sophia Antipolis
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- In article <BzBJA2.Apn@austin.ibm.com> curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
- >
- >You cannot use NFS to write to a device file across the network.
- >NFS is stateless, which means the open() doesn't even go across the wire.
- >Devices like to see their open()s so they can initialize and whatnot.
- >
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- There is a thing about this which seems strange to me :
- on some systems exists an mount option 'nodev' when mounting by NFS
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- What is it for ?
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