thanks jan!  that did the trick!

Jan Harkes wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:26:36PM -0800, Joseph Cheek wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > we are attempting to create a venus-like file cache manager for coda,
> > based on podfuk
> > [http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html] and can't
> > get it to work on linux kernel version 2.4.0-test10.  the same code
> > works fine on linux kernel 2.2.15.  the error received is that the cache
> > manager can't open /dev/cfs0.  here is a brief outline of how our
> > solution works:
> >
> > - we create /dev/cfs0 [mknod /dev/cfs0 c 67 5], chmod a+rw
>
> On Linux, /dev/cfs0 should be made using: mknod /dev/cfs0 c 67 0, or
> 'cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV cfs0'
>
> It used to work with minor 5 only because the kernel module didn't
> support multiple mountpoints and didn't check for the correct minor
> number.
>
> Jan