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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: bin/899: /var/db/mountdtab not removed on bootup.
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The following reply was made to PR bin/899; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/899: /var/db/mountdtab not removed on bootup.
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:59:26 +0100 (MET)

 As Faried Nawaz wrote:
 > 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > /var/db/mountdtab is not removed on bootup, and so hosts "appear" to be
 > mounting drives when they aren't doing so.
 
 I believe this is rather a bug in the NFS implementation in not
 removing mountdtab entries at umount time.
 
 Removing mountdtab on bootup is the wrong way.  It is _intented_ to
 persist across system boots, since the NFS protocol was designed so
 that a server can go down and up again while a client is holding it
 mounted.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)