Adding dependency on mountlate to mountd

[Chris Rees]

On 15 Dec 2012 09:14, "Konstantin Belousov" <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:27:35AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > On 14 December 2012 13:25, Steven Hartland <smh at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > Hi guys I'm looking to make mountd REQUIRE mountlate so
> > > that it can successfully export volumes on devices mounted
> > > with 'late'
> > >
> > > PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=169373
> > >
> > > Any objections to this?
> > >
> > > Patch:-
> > > --- mountd      2012-06-24 14:09:50.074267521 +0000
> > > +++ /etc/rc.d/mountd    2012-06-24 13:47:35.012295797 +0000
> > > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
> > > #
> > >
> > > # PROVIDE: mountd
> > > -# REQUIRE: NETWORKING nfsserver rpcbind quota
> > > +# REQUIRE: NETWORKING nfsserver rpcbind quota mountlate
> > > # KEYWORD: nojail shutdown
> >
> > This seems fine to me. I can't see any reason why this shouldn't be
> > done, and I don't see any sign of intentionally leaving off
> > "mountlate" in the commit log history.
>
> It cannot be fine. It breaks local NFS mounts.

Given that we can't have both, but we can have nullfs and thus solve this
problem.

Is there something that local NFS mounts can do that nullfs won't?

Chris