/etc/rc.d/mountcritremote

[Daniel Braniss]

> 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.

most of our servers are pxeboot'able/dataless.

since we rely heavely on NFS - ie. /usr/local - I set early_late_divider to amd
(the automounter), and made sure it runs early enough.
Probably because we have been running NFS since V0 (pre automount too), booting
machines was a nightmare, I refuse to have nfs mounts in fstab.

danny