Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:00:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> Cc: dg@Root.COM, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/926 Message-ID: <199610221800.MAA23161@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199610221739.UAA13123@katiska.clinet.fi> References: <199610220842.BAA12410@freefall.freebsd.org> <199610221719.KAA25128@root.com> <199610221739.UAA13123@katiska.clinet.fi>
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Heikki Suonsivu writes: > > 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. What we *really* need is documentation on the 'bg' option (background) which is on SunOS. This basically says attempt to mount the FS, but keep going if it doesn't happen. It's in the source, but not in the man-page. Nate
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