Subject: bug#15083: MKNOD issue

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:50:42 -0600

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