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- From: assela@aix.rpi.edu (A. Andre Asselin)
- Subject: Re: "NFS" reported instead of real volume label
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:08:38 GMT
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- esmith@hobbes.psych.purdue.edu (Eliot R. Smith) writes:
-
- >Running IBM TCP/IP v1.2.1 with NFS, I find that the directory
- >listing of a network-mounted drive shows volume label NFS
- >instead of the actual label. This is a problem because an
- >application wants to check the volume label to see if the
- >correct CD-ROM is mounted! The documentation contains no
- >hints about how to force the NFS client to report the true
- >volume label. Is there a way to do this?
-
- Afraid not. The NFS protocol deosn't support anything like volume
- labels, so there's no way to report the correct label.
-
- - Andre Asselin (assela@rpi.edu)
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