Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:22:51 +0400 (????) From: Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>, Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-bugs@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/926 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961023152129.28324C-100000@sunny.bog.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961022164637.284B-100000@quagmire.ki.net>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
>
> > > > Synopsis: Mounting nfs disks before starting mountd: Chicken or Egg problem
> > The PR was about two machines mounting each others disks. If both panic or
> > are rebooted at the same time, they both lock up waiting for each other
> > coming up.
> >
> > I have moved mountd startup in /etc/rc like this:
> >
> > # $rwhod is imported from /etc/sysconfig;
> > # if $rwhod is set to YES, rwhod is run.
> > if [ "X${rwhod}" = X"YES" ]; then
> > echo -n ' rwhod'; rwhod
> > fi
> >
> > if [ "X${nfs_server}" = X"YES" -a -r /etc/exports ]; then
> > echo -n ' mountd'
> > if [ "X${pcnfsd}" = X"YES" ]; then
> > mountd -n
> > else
> > mountd
> > fi
> > echo -n ' nfsd'; nfsd -u -t 4
> > fi
> >
> > if [ "X${nfs_client}" = X"YES" ]; then
> > echo -n ' nfsiod'; nfsiod -n 4
> > fi
> >
> > mount -a -t nfs >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > if [ "X${amdflags}" != X"NO" ]; then
> > echo -n ' amd'; amd ${amdflags}
> > fi
> >
>
> Is there any reacon why the above order is a bad idea? Both
> mountd/nfsd are in /sbin, which I don't believe *should* ever be nfs
> mount'd, and therefore should have any reason for needing to wait for
> the nfs drives to be mounted...
Yes, mountd/nfsd depend on working name service.
-Dima.
>
> Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net
> Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
>
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