Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262194AbUFBMIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:08:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262065AbUFBMF1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:05:27 -0400 Received: from mail45.messagelabs.com ([140.174.2.179]:41376 "HELO mail45.messagelabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262170AbUFBMEi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:04:38 -0400 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: justin.piszcz@mitretek.org X-Msg-Ref: server-19.tower-45.messagelabs.com!1086177874!3263439 X-StarScan-Version: 5.2.10; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [141.156.156.57] X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: How come dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/dev/null does not send packets over the network? Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:04:06 -0400 Message-ID: <5D3C2276FD64424297729EB733ED1F7606243695@email1.mitretek.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: How come dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/dev/null does not send packets over the network? Thread-Index: AcRHqrqBVoyH3y57QLC2MRShybnlVAA7uNJQ From: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" To: Cc: "Al Piszcz" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 621 Lines: 20 root@jpiszcz:~# mkdir /p500/dev root@jpiszcz:~# mount 192.168.0.253:/dev /p500/dev root@jpiszcz:~# echo blah > /p500/dev/null root@jpiszcz:~# ls -l /p500/dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 3 Jul 17 1994 /p500/dev/null root@jpiszcz:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/p500/dev/null 6179737+0 records in 6179736+0 records out Instead it treats it as a local block device? Kernel 2.6.5. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/