Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:17:47 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote and nfsserver Message-ID: <200411190917.51162.kirk@strauser.com>
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This is a short question, but I'll make it long anyway. Those short on
time may want to skip to the last paragraph.
I run several servers that each host a few jail environments, and I use NFS
as a kind of loopback filesystem to share common directories among them.
=46or example, my /etc/fstab is populated with entries like:
hostmachine:/usr/ports /var/jail/virtual1/usr/ports =
nfs ro 0 0
hostmachine:/usr/ports/distfiles /var/jail/virtual1/usr/ports/distfiles=
nfs rw 0 0
Until recently, I've been using the sysutils/jailadmin port (plug: which I
wrote ;-) ) to start and stop these jails, and one of its features is that
it can automatically mount a jail's filesystems immediately before it starts
it and then umount them when the jail is stopped. Consequently, I've always
had the `noauto' option in /etc/fstab in all of those NFS entries.
A few days ago, though, I decided to try the much-improved rc.d/jail
script, and it works well enough now that I'm about ready to orphan
jailadmin and concentrate on improving rc.d/jail instead. However,
`jail' does not (yet) support the automatic mounting of a jail's
filesystems, so I have to let the boot sequence take care of that. If I
remove the `noauto' option, then the machines hang at boot in
rc.d/mountcritremote, since it runs before rc.d/nfsserver.
As someone new to the whole rc.d idea, I have to ask: is it OK to add
`nfsserver' to the REQUIRE line in `mountcritremote'? Is there any reason
not to? Would this make sense as a patch for FreeBSD in general?
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser
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