Subject: Re: /etc/rc critical filesystem mount changes
To: NetBSD-current Users <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/1999 18:15:40
matthew green wrote:

> 
>    
>    I've just tweaked /etc/rc so that instead of specifying whether
>    you want the critical filesystems mounted before or after networking
>    starts, it looks at them to see which ones are local (mounting them
>    before networking starts) and which are network (mounting them
>    after networking starts). If you've updated in the last week or
>    two and set the variable related to that in /etc/rc.conf, you can
>    to remove it.
>    
>    You  may also want to yell at me if this new scheme doesn't work.  :-)
> 
> 
> YELL!!!!
> 
> 
> this breaks the situation where you mount local drives ontop of
> NFS drives.  personally, i've never done it but others do!

We _used_ to do things that here here with Ultrix "diskless" clients.
The root f/s was NFS mounted, but /var was on local disk...

Simon.