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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>
cc: hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/926 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:42:50 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:19:35 -0700
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>Synopsis: Mounting nfs disks before starting mountd: Chicken or Egg problem
>
>State-Changed-From-To: feedback-open
>State-Changed-By: scrappy
>State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 01:42:07 PDT 1996
>State-Changed-Why: 
>
>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).

   mountd is only needed to serve external mount requests for local 
filesystems that are being served. It is NOT needed to mount NFS disks on
other servers.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project