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From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] remote home directory?
Message-ID: <explorer.742826509@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>
Keywords: kernfs home NetBSD fstab exports
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References: <1993Jul16.110221.1400@fys.ruu.nl>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 12:41:49 GMT
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In <1993Jul16.110221.1400@fys.ruu.nl> verleun@fys.ruu.nl (Vincent Verleun) writes:

>Howdy all,

>Is it possible to have a $HOME on a remote server?

Sure -- I do at home.  :)

>The path I get when I do a 'pwd' on a client in the oddball home-directory
>reads: '/kernfs/users/oddball'.
>Where does the '/kernfs' come from? It looks like some ghost filesystem,
>anybody got any clue?

I called it a bug and removed the kernfs from my client's kernels...

>BTW it all works, but the path still bothers me.

It works for now.  On a straight 0.8 system the NFS client tends to drop data
though...  At least on two seperate systems (one served from a DECstation and
the other set from a NetBSD box)

Hmm...

--Michael
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