From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 9:24:46 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 AF65B15669 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA28817; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:24:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001121724.JAA28817@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin In-Reply-To: <20000112125033.A51579@walton.maths.tcd.ie> from David Malone at "Jan 12, 2000 12:50:33 pm" To: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:24:21 -0800 (PST) Cc: mb@imp.ch, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, 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 > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:23:14AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Also moving them to pass1 would bring up nfs exports before we > > brought up nfs mounts. syslogd would not be running to catch > > Shouldn't nfs exports happen before nfs mounts, so that machines > which have nfs interdependencies don't sit there waiting for one > another? (I think we've had to change this several times in the > FreeBSD rc scripts, I guess the reason it might be the other way > around is incase /usr is nfs mounted?) If your talking about dead lock caused by mutual cross mounting between 2 systems via NFS the NFS rule book says ``don't do that, it hurts''. Independent of order of export/mounting the dead lock occurs. Cross mounting via NFS is a verbotten thing in the sysadmin world of production systems. :-) I have had to fix it at several sites admin'd by newbies... -- 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