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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!tbird.cc.iastate.edu!explorer 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 Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1993Jul16.110221.1400@fys.ruu.nl> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 12:41:49 GMT Lines: 29 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 -- Michael Graff <explorer@iastate.edu> Speaking for myself, not Project Vincent Voice: (515)294-4994 for ISU or the ISUCC Iowa State Univ Comp Center Fax: (515)294-1717 Ames, IA 50011 -=*> PGP key on pgp-public-keys@pgp.iastate.edu <*=-