From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 19 01:51:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA04054 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 01:51:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA04035 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 01:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA20775; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:49:03 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA09419; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:49:02 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA02500; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:55:58 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512190855.JAA02500@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/899: /var/db/mountdtab not removed on bootup. To: wes@intele.net Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:55:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512181630.IAA04939@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Barnacle Wes" at Dec 18, 95 08:30:02 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Barnacle Wes wrote: > > > I believe this is rather a bug in the NFS implementation in not > > removing mountdtab entries at umount time. > > You are, of course, correct. ;^) > > This bug has existed for many years; the SunOS 3.6 implementation > (circa 1989) exhibited this same problem. There might be a historical > reason for this behavior that we don't know, but it has always seemed > like a bug to me. Interesting enough, it must have sneaked into the UoGuelph NFS, too. Remember, we're using a totally different code base... Hmm, i've just checked: i cannot reproduce the bug any more. Either, it doesn't appear all the time, or it has been fixed as side-effect of something else (perhaps the NFSv3 changes). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)