Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 05:40:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/926 Message-ID: <199610221240.FAA26268@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/926; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org (Marc G. Fournier), hsu@clinet.fi,
freebsd-gnats-submit@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/926
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:37:47 +0800
Robert Eckardt wrote:
> > Synopsis: Mounting nfs disks before starting mountd: Chicken or Egg problem
> > Problem Still Exists
> > From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
> >
> > This is still valid problem; mountd is started in /etc/rc later than mount
> > -a -t nfs is run (checked current from two days ago).
>
> This is no conflict. mountd is needed for the NFS-Server.
> Mounting NFS-FSs is done by the NFS-Client, which needs only nfsiod.
>
> Robert
And not even that.. You can mount nfs partitions as a client even without
the nfsiod's running, you just get slower transfers until they are going.
Although I could see there would be a problem if the machine was mounting
some of it's own disks, but I suspect that might be tempting fate with
``interesting'' coherency problems..
Cheers,
-Peter
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