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From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
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Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>, hsu@clinet.fi,
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Subject: Re: bin/926 
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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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