Subject: Re: nfs question
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/30/2003 16:57:40
> > will
> >
> > cat /home/wojtek/xterminal/dev/rfd0b >image read image from it's floppy or
> > host's floppy?
> >
> > does NFS export names or actually devices?
>
> Names, if I understand your terminology. To make it explicit:
>
> You'll be able to read from the floppy of the machine where the
> reading program executes.
>
> Diskless machines traditionally use this feature so that they can
> read from their own devices.
thanks. exactly not what i need ;)