From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 10:46:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA06946 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 10:46:50 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA06939 ; Wed, 3 May 1995 10:46:49 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Hinrich Eilts cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: /etc/nologin and mount_nfs (union) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 95 15:39:07 +0200." <199505031339.PAA27118@late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 10:46:49 -0700 Message-ID: <6938.799523209@freefall.cdrom.com> From: Gary Palmer Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199505031339.PAA27118@late5.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>, Hinrich Eil ts writes: >For installing FreeBSD-2.0R on several PS's, I installed /usr/* and most >of /etc/* on a NFS-server (HP 9000-700), rest on PC's. These directories >are exported with root-access and mounted at boottime right after >/etc/netstart in rc by >mount -o union -t nfs server-ip-no:/BSD/etc /etc EVIL! I'm surprised that the machines work at all... union mounts are not the most reliable of filesystem options under FreeBSD 2.x. AFAIR we haven't got the latest round of fixes to unionfs yet, and it's pretty unstable. This may be your problem. Gary