Roger Heflin wrote: > Devices don't export across nfs, they are a way for you to reference a > "device" in the kernel and don't work across 2 separate machines.
That makes sense. Though depending on what layer network redirection occurs at, I'd expect the NFS layer to see the device as a file, with the kernel translating the file I/O to device I/O at a lower layer. It might make a difference whether you're using a kernel or user-space NFS server. > Named pipes don't export either... Are you sure? This I'm more skeptical of. I'll have to try an experiment and see what happens when a named pipe is read from via NFS, SMB, and sshfs. My expectation is that the network file system daemon will pass on the file I/O operations to the named pipe, and the underlying file system driver and the kernel will implement the pipe I/O. What you say is backed up by this FAQ: http://www.unixguide.net/unix/programming/2.10.4.shtml and: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/named_pipes.html but it doesn't give an explanation of why it doesn't work. I couldn't find anything definitive saying named pipes don't work with SMB, but I couldn't find anything definitive saying they do, either. The issue gets muddy, because some of the search hits are talking about enhancing Samba client libraries to support named pipes on Windows servers. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
