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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:31:58 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        Dirk-WIllem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "sbruno@freebsd.org" <sbruno@freebsd.org>, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Subject:   Re: /etc/rc.d/mountcritremote
Message-ID:  <1283279518.3665.64.camel@home-yahoo>
In-Reply-To: <F6A6C8FF-911E-4A32-B4BC-1289D48EC655@webweaving.org>
References:  <1283271393.3665.13.camel@home-yahoo> <F6A6C8FF-911E-4A32-B4BC-1289D48EC655@webweaving.org>

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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 10:45 -0700, Dirk-WIllem van Gulik wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2010, at 17:16, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> > An issue in testing came up where we were trying to mount NFS
> > directories from the same server, i.e. a machine trying to mount an NFS
> > dir on itself.
> > 
> > Because mountcritremote runs before the NFS server is up, we modified
> > the REQUIRES section and appended nfsd.  
> 
> Are you sure that is right for PXE style boots - where this is heavily relied on ?
> 
> Dw.

Not sure.  If the nfs server isn't configured to startup, then this is a
no-op.

I'm not sure what application would be running in a pxeboot environment
and run an NFS server.

Sean




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