Subject: bug#15083: MKNOD issue

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:45:17 -0700

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.