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- From: spo@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Sporer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Global mounts in a NetInfo network
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 22:19:57 GMT
- Organization: University of Erlangen
- Lines: 42
- Message-ID: <1dc6mdEINNdmk@uni-erlangen.de>
- References: <1992Oct19.183446.22945@bernina.ethz.ch> <5604@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
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- In article <5604@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes:
- >Marcel Waldvogel writes
- >> We were trying the obvious: putting a /mounts entry in the / NetInfo
- >> domain (name=server:/LocalApps, dir=/LocalApps). This works well on
- >> all clients, but the server can't restart properly
- >
- >This sort of mount causes all pre-3.0 systems to hang when the
- >mount is encountered. In 3.0, this sort of mount is simply
- >ignored.
- >
- >The classic pre-3.0 workaround is to rename the directory on the
- >server, and mount server:/localapps on /LocalApps. But, because
- >of an old and very tricky NFS bug, writing on the server into
- >/LocalApps in this situation might cause the server to hang.
- >
- >Best solution: upgrade to 3.0.
- >--
- >Alan M. Marcum
- >NeXT Tech Support
- >amm@NeXT.COM
-
- Another solution:
- Abort the mount if the directory existists. This can be done with
- netinfomanager:
-
- name: server:/dir
- dir: /dir
- opts: rw
- bg <---------------Background !!!
- type: nfs
- passno: 0
- freq: 0
-
-
- This works for us with two servers mounting some directories across
- and 6 clients.
-
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