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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com>
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Subject: Re: Why special handling of nfsclient kernel support in etc/rc? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:10:25 EST."
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:10:25 EST, "Alexander N. Kabaev" wrote:

> rc script tries to set sysctl variables which are only 
> available when NFS is present in the kernel.

But not at the point where NFS filesystems are mounted.

Why can't we rely on mount_nfs's calls to vfsload() to do the right
thing for us?  I propose that the checks for the presence of NFS support
should accompany the calls to sysctl, not the calls to mount_nfs.

Ciao,
SHeldon.

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