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

> 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...

Yes, mountd/nfsd depend on working name service.

	-Dima.

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