>Number:         13791
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Hardlinking a device like /dev/null on a nfs mounted fs causes system to reboot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 27 01:44:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bizon Maxime
>Release:        1.5.1
>Organization:
Epita
>Environment:
NetBSD matinik 1.5.1 NetBSD 1.5.1 (EPITA 20010722 std du) #18: Sun Aug 26 19:45:26 GMT 2001     rn@khan:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RN i386
>Description:
It seems that creating a hardlink to a device on a nfs filesystem hangs and reboot the system.

Here are the mount options:
s1:/space/export on /nfs/s1/space type nfs (nodev, nosuid)

Mounting without the nodev option gives the same result.
>How-To-Repeat:
just cd in the nfs filesystem

ln /dev/null test

>Fix:

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