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From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
Subject: Re: bin/926 
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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