From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 0:44:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1D514F00 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:44:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA27579; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001120844.AAA27579@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin In-Reply-To: from Martin Blapp at "Jan 12, 2000 09:31:54 am" To: mb@imp.ch (Martin Blapp) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:44:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > portmap(8) and therefore mountd(8) should be started before > > > the nfs filesystems get mounted. But because portmap(8) is in > > > /usr/sbin , users with a nfs mounted /usr filesystem or with > > > diskless filesystems will have big problems. > > I mean, that if I do the change of startup-order, diskless > installations will be broken. > > > > This will fix loopback and local mounts in fstab. Untill now > > > this has not been possible because of the above reasons. Btw: > > > Linux also has portmap(8) installed in /sbin. > > > You only need portmap and mountd to _export_ nfs, not to mount > > them. > > For a normal installation this is ok, but as I said, diskless > installs ... Lets see, your booting diskless during the install, which means you have no disk to export until you have fdisk/newfs'ed one, your not going to get very far without /usr in this process. So no disk, so just what is it that you are exporting??? -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message