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To: "Adam David" <adam@veda.is>
cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: nfs_mod mount hangs in single-user 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:53:57 GMT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:59:27 -0800
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>Does anyone know why mount_nfs hangs (wait channel "sbwait") under the
>following conditions?...
>
>1. the mount command is invoked from /etc/rc (or rc.local, etc) during reboot.
>2. NFS is dynamically loaded.
>3. the volume to be mounted is located on the machine that is being rebooted.
>
>4. it is a union mount (this might not be significant).

   A union mount?? You mean, using the UNION filesystem? If this is really
what you mean then you should know that unionfs is *completely* broken. I'm
surprised the machine doesn't panic.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project