Re: named pipes over NFS?

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de>]

Hello,

We did have exactly the same problem with a sparcstation 20 under
Solaris 2.4
as NFS server. Our solution is to use a K6-166 linux box as NFS server
and we
are quite happy with it.

Heinrich Rebehn

Erik Starback wrote:
> 
> We don't have the problem with wrong major and minor numbers to devices,
> but we don't get the named pipes to work over NFS and we got some really
> strange problems when the named pipe /dev/initctl works as an ordinary
> file...
> 
> We use a Sun Sparc U1 with solaris 2.6 as NFS server and have linux redhat
> 5.0 on our clients.
> 
> If I do "mknod foo p" on a linux client with NFS-root, foo looks lika an
> ordinary file (both from the client and from the server). If I do "mknod
> foo p" on the server, foo looks like a named pipe on the server
> and a character device with minor and major to 255!
> 
> Does anybody have the same problem? What to do? We don't want to use a
> linux machine as NFS-root server.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> /Erik
> 
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