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- From: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM (Brent)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: automounter swamps mountd
- Date: 16 Sep 1992 01:10:30 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
- Lines: 19
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <lbd2c6INNl60@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <lbaa6oINNlei@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
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- In article lbaa6oINNlei@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu, fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:
- >Why is it so easy to swamp rpc.mountd with mount requests?
- > :
- > Why can't mountd keep up? Or perhaps this is really a
- >problem with inetd? (I run mountd under inetd).
-
- Bad idea. NFS clients broadcast an "unmount all" request when they boot up in order
- to remove stale entries from the /etc/rmtab file on any servers it may have mounted
- from. Any machine that has mountd run by inetd, and can hear the broadcast - will
- fire up inetd if it's not running already. Worst case: lots of client-only machines
- get a useless mountd fired up.
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