From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 23:43:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA27770 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA27765 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA07766; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:43:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Somers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs startup In-Reply-To: <199709042231.XAA26182@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > This has to be a dumb question, but I can't fathom it. > > /etc/rc sources /etc/rc.network and then runs network_pass1. > Directly afterwards, it runs ``mount -a -t nfs''. > > However, network_pass3 (invoked much later) starts nfsiod along with > the other nfs stuff. > > How is the ``mount -a -t nfs'' supposed to work ? nfsiod is more of a helper daemon for nfs; it'll still work without it. mount -a -t nfs will mount all filesystems of type nfs; this is probably necessary for diskless boots. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo