From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 19 11:38:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5F737B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msinz@wgate.com) Received: from sinz.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.99]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 3LH07KM4; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:37:49 -0400 Received: from wgate.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sinz.eng.tvol.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6JIc7N77239; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:38:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from msinz@wgate.com) Message-ID: <3B57290F.15C009A5@wgate.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:38:07 -0400 From: Michael Sinz Organization: WorldGate Communications Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attila Nagy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS local mount References: <20010719155719.N45187-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Attila Nagy wrote: > > Hello, > > I am currently installing a machine on which I want to replace the NULL > and/or UNIONFS mounts with NFS. NFS server and client on the same machine, > to be exact, for jailing purposes (this seems to be the most stable). > > The problem is, that at the FreeBSD boot process the NFS filesystems are > mounted before the NFS-related daemons are started, so I can't do this in > a clean way (from /etc/fstab). > > Are there any objections to swap those two? I mean starting the NFS server > and after that mounting the NFS filesystems? That would be nice since I have a problem here at WorldGate where a number of machines mount drives from eachother. If only one of them goes down at a time things are fine, but after a power outage they all block trying to mount each other and thus never start up the NFS server such that they can mount each other. My "solution" has been to have the NFS mounts happen as a background process and thus letting the rest of the network startup run and thus getting to start the NFS servers which then answer these background NFS mount requests. I had been meaning to ask if there was a reason why NFS mounts happened before NFS servers were started but life kept getting in the way :-) -- Michael Sinz ---- Worldgate Communications ---- msinz@wgate.com A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message