Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:14:57 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: Dirk-WIllem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>, "sbruno@freebsd.org" <sbruno@freebsd.org>, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote Message-ID: <E1Oqgb3-000CfV-PS@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <1283279518.3665.64.camel@home-yahoo> References: <1283271393.3665.13.camel@home-yahoo> <F6A6C8FF-911E-4A32-B4BC-1289D48EC655@webweaving.org> <1283279518.3665.64.camel@home-yahoo>
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> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 10:45 -0700, Dirk-WIllem van Gulik wrote: > > On 31 Aug 2010, at 17:16, Sean Bruno 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. > > > > Are you sure that is right for PXE style boots - where this is heavily relied on ? > > > > Dw. > > Not sure. If the nfs server isn't configured to startup, then this is a > no-op. > > I'm not sure what application would be running in a pxeboot environment > and run an NFS server. most of our servers are pxeboot'able/dataless. since we rely heavely on NFS - ie. /usr/local - I set early_late_divider to amd (the automounter), and made sure it runs early enough. Probably because we have been running NFS since V0 (pre automount too), booting machines was a nightmare, I refuse to have nfs mounts in fstab. danny
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