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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:02:27PM +0200, Jan Kopriva wrote: > Is there any way how to share device files? Hello Jan, you are probably thinking in a wrong direction. Device files are something that is very Unix-specific, differs in semantics on different dialects, has a lot to do with hardware, and is being tried to be replaced by different approaches like devfs. Most important, they control access to host-local resources and as such can not be reasonably protected on a global file system. The same about setuid programs and other stuff that concerns by definition access to some _local_ resources, not access to global data. Forget it. NFS did a great job of confusing local and global concepts together, but let's try to be sane :) Device files is not something worth for a distributed filesystem to support. They are inherently unsafe on a global one. Finally, they are not at all necessary there for client administration. If you really really need them, just create a ram fs and put your device files there. Share the creation script instead of the files :) Best regards, -- IvanReceived on 2004-09-19 11:58:29