Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:44:28 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: mb@imp.ch (Martin Blapp) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: move portmap(8) from /usr/sbin to /sbin Message-ID: <200001120844.AAA27579@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.10.10001120929510.8825-100000@mephisto.imp.ch> from Martin Blapp at "Jan 12, 2000 09:31:54 am"
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> > > > portmap(8) and therefore mountd(8) should be started before > > > the nfs filesystems get mounted. But because portmap(8) is in > > > /usr/sbin , users with a nfs mounted /usr filesystem or with > > > diskless filesystems will have big problems. > > I mean, that if I do the change of startup-order, diskless > installations will be broken. > > > > This will fix loopback and local mounts in fstab. Untill now > > > this has not been possible because of the above reasons. Btw: > > > Linux also has portmap(8) installed in /sbin. > > > You only need portmap and mountd to _export_ nfs, not to mount > > them. > > For a normal installation this is ok, but as I said, diskless > installs ... Lets see, your booting diskless during the install, which means you have no disk to export until you have fdisk/newfs'ed one, your not going to get very far without /usr in this process. So no disk, so just what is it that you are exporting??? -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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