/etc/rc.d/mountcritremote

Sean Bruno seanbru at yahoo-inc.com
Tue Aug 31 18:42:59 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 10:45 -0700, Dirk-WIllem van Gulik wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2010, at 17:16, Sean Bruno 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.  
> 
> Are you sure that is right for PXE style boots - where this is heavily relied on ?
> 
> Dw.

Not sure.  If the nfs server isn't configured to startup, then this is a
no-op.

I'm not sure what application would be running in a pxeboot environment
and run an NFS server.

Sean



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