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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
cc: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: bin/926
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:

>  > > Synopsis: Mounting nfs disks before starting mountd: Chicken or Egg problem
> The PR was about two machines mounting each others disks.  If both panic or
> are rebooted at the same time, they both lock up waiting for each other
> coming up.
> 
> I have moved mountd startup in /etc/rc like this:
> 
> # $rwhod is imported from /etc/sysconfig;
> # if $rwhod is set to YES, rwhod is run.
> if [ "X${rwhod}" = X"YES" ]; then
>         echo -n ' rwhod';       rwhod
> fi
> 
> if [ "X${nfs_server}" = X"YES" -a -r /etc/exports ]; then
>         echo -n ' mountd'
>         if [ "X${pcnfsd}" = X"YES" ]; then
>                 mountd -n
>         else
>                 mountd
>         fi
>         echo -n ' nfsd';                nfsd -u -t 4
> fi
> 
> if [ "X${nfs_client}" = X"YES" ]; then
>         echo -n ' nfsiod';              nfsiod -n 4
> fi
> 
> mount -a -t nfs >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> if [ "X${amdflags}" != X"NO" ]; then
>         echo -n ' amd';                 amd ${amdflags}
> fi
>

	Is there any reacon why the above order is a bad idea?  Both
mountd/nfsd are in /sbin, which I don't believe *should* ever be nfs
mount'd, and therefore should have any reason for needing to wait for
the nfs drives to be mounted...

Marc G. Fournier                                  scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net               scrappy@freebsd.org