Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 08:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/899: /var/db/mountdtab not removed on bootup. Message-ID: <199512181630.IAA04939@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/899; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/899: /var/db/mountdtab not removed on bootup.
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:29:06 -0700 (MST)
Faried Nawaz hypothesized:
% /var/db/mountdtab is not removed on bootup, and so hosts "appear" to be
% mounting drives when they aren't doing so.
J Wunsch replied:
> I believe this is rather a bug in the NFS implementation in not
> removing mountdtab entries at umount time.
You are, of course, correct. ;^)
This bug has existed for many years; the SunOS 3.6 implementation
(circa 1989) exhibited this same problem. There might be a historical
reason for this behavior that we don't know, but it has always seemed
like a bug to me.
--
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