nfs_client_enable="YES" usage

[Jeff Royle]

Frank Staals wrote:
> I am running a nfs-client and nfs-server here for quite some time and 
> I'm very happy about it. The client is my laptop ( running 6.1-RELEASE 
> ) and the server a 6.0-STABLE machine. I have enabled nfs_client with 
> nfs_client_enable="YES" on my FreeBSD laptop as stated in the 
> handbook: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html 
> allthough when I'm not at home I notice FreeBSD halting during boot 
> after "NFS access cache time=2" , when I hit ctrl+c it continues fine. 
> Since I always mount my NFS dirs manually I started wondering about 
> how usefull the entry in /etc/rc.conf was. So I quoted out 
> nfs_client_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and I still could mount my nfs 
> dirs perfectly
>
> So my question was: Is the entry in rc.conf only needed when mounting 
> a nfs dir at boot ? or is it not needed at all ( since my test proved 
> it isn't needed when you mount the dirs manually after boot )
>
Referenced from man rc.conf ...

nfs_client_enable - If set to YES run the NFS client daemons at boot 
time.  

You would need this option enabled to connect to a NFS server on boot, 
otherwise it is not needed.
> .. now I have yet to figure out why my ndis NIC won't work when 
> disableing nfs_client :S ....
>
>
Cheers,

Jeff