From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 13 12:56:56 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 43EEC151CC for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA33573; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:56:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001132056.MAA33573@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin In-Reply-To: <200001132000.MAA82890@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jan 13, 2000 12:00:22 pm" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:56:17 -0800 (PST) Cc: ntakpe@ffab.tide.ti.com (Jean Louis Ntakpe), dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone), mb@imp.ch, 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 > :> Sometimes we just want to nfs-mount things on the same > :> machine. > : > :Sick, poor in performance and the wrong tool for the job. > :See mount_null(8) for more details on how to do it right. > : > :> > :> One more example: I don't like /var/news so I mount locally > :> /var/news > :> to /archive/news on the same system instead of using > :> symlinks. > :> My rc.local manages it for me. > : > :Sick. See above. > > I gotta agree, this is sick. But to put the icing on the cake: LOCAL > NFS MOUNTS CAN LEAD TO LOW-MEMORY DEADLOCKS. Even with my recent fixes > to -current there is still a non-zero chance of this happening. This use to be documented some place, but I can't find it :-(. [Good example of how to do things deleted] -- 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