From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267279AbUHDGeo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:34:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267293AbUHDGeo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:34:44 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:1763 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267279AbUHDGem (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 02:34:42 -0400 Message-ID: <41108380.6080809@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:34:40 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6 References: <410F481C.9090408@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <64bf.410f9d6f.62af@altium.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > If having /dev mounted read-only means you cannot open devices > like /dev/console read/write then that is a bug in the NFS client > in the kernel. Which matches the fact the it works with server running 2.6 and client running 2.4. > > On all other filesystems (ext2, ext3, xfs etc) there's no problem > opening devices r/w on a read-only filesystem. Should I report that as bug to someone special? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049