Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> Assuming you have a way to reproduce this, to the NFS client
> maintainer - see the file MAINTAINERS in the kernel source.

Thanks! I will do so.

> 
> But I just tried to reproduce this on 2.6.7-rc2 (it's what my
> workstation happens to be running) and I can't. I can mount an
> nfs-exported /dev from both 2.4 and 2.6 servers read-only and
> I can open devices on that read-only mount just fine.

It happens only when the server exports the fs read-only. When it
exports the fs rw and you mount it ro on the client, it works. But
with exporting ro, it fails.

Before I report this, I guess I should try 2.6.8-rc3 and see if it
works there.

Thanks!
cu,
Frank

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