bug#15083: MKNOD issue

[Assaf Gordon]

close 15083
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 13/08/13 02:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Manish Gupta wrote:
> > > when i try to create in NFS mounted
> > > volume, hitting with error "operation not permitted".
> >
> > It sounds like your NFS server is not permitting it.
> > If so, it's not mknod's fault.  You can double-check
> > by running 'strace mknode' and seeing what system calls
> > it's using.
>
> As far as I know NFS does not support the making of device nodes.
> Remember that NFS is not a POSIX compliant filesystem.  It only
> supports a subset of file operations.
[...]
> In order to know more you would need to tell us what command you were
> running that failed.  And also include what type of system you were
> running on and what type of file system you were using.

With no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this bug.

-assaf