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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:39:20 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>, hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/926 
Message-ID:  <199610221739.UAA13123@katiska.clinet.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199610221719.KAA25128@root.com>
References:  <199610220842.BAA12410@freefall.freebsd.org> <199610221719.KAA25128@root.com>

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David Greenman writes:
 > >Synopsis: Mounting nfs disks before starting mountd: Chicken or Egg problem

 > >This is still valid problem; mountd is started in /etc/rc later than mount
 > >-a -t nfs is run (checked current from two days ago).
 > 
 >    mountd is only needed to serve external mount requests for local 
 > filesystems that are being served. It is NOT needed to mount NFS disks on
 > other servers.

Please read the whole text; the problem is when two computers cross-mount
each other's disks.  When they are rebooted at the same time and they
arrive to mount -a -t nfs they both block there to wait until other party
gets its mountd running, which of course never happens as mountd is started
after mount -a -t nfs.

 > -DG
 > 
 > David Greenman
 > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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