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Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote
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In message <1283271393.3665.13.camel@home-yahoo>,
	Sean Bruno (seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) wrote:
> An issue in testing came up where we were trying to mount NFS
> directories from the same server, i.e. a machine trying to mount an NFS
> dir on itself.
> 
> Because mountcritremote runs before the NFS server is up, we modified
> the REQUIRES section and appended nfsd.  

Is this not what the 'late' attribute in /etc/fstab is for?

e.g.

oberon% grep /usr/ports /etc/fstab
oberon:/export/usr/ports   /usr/ports   nfs   late,rw,tcp


Cheers,
       Nick.
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