/etc/rc.d/mountcritremote

Sean Bruno seanbru at yahoo-inc.com
Tue Aug 31 18:44:41 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 09:29 -0700, N.J. Mann wrote:
> In message <1283271393.3665.13.camel at home-yahoo>,
> 	Sean Bruno (seanbru at yahoo-inc.com) wrote:
> > An issue in testing came up where we were trying to mount NFS
> > directories from the same server, i.e. a machine trying to mount an NFS
> > dir on itself.
> > 
> > Because mountcritremote runs before the NFS server is up, we modified
> > the REQUIRES section and appended nfsd.  
> 
> Is this not what the 'late' attribute in /etc/fstab is for?
> 
> e.g.
> 
> oberon% grep /usr/ports /etc/fstab
> oberon:/export/usr/ports   /usr/ports   nfs   late,rw,tcp
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>        Nick.

Good question.  Looking over the man page for mount, is there any reason
to use 'late' versus what I am suggesting?

Sean



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