Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262418AbUFBMWD (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:22:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262391AbUFBMVM (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:21:12 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:9385 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262065AbUFBMUP (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:20:15 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: How come dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/dev/null does not send packets over the network? Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 14:20:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5D3C2276FD64424297729EB733ED1F7606243695@email1.mitretek.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-187-164-3.dd.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HSjjaM8w6cTNqfYkQsKiX6EFr60= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 21 "Piszcz, Justin Michael" writes: > 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. That is how it's supposed to work. Think about root on nfs. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@kth.se - 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/