daveb@uunet.uu.net (David Collier-Brown) (04/21/89)
Once upon a time, on SunOS 3.4, I inadvertently mount(1)ed a fileserver partition twice, once r/o, once r/w. It didn't seem to appreciate that, so I refrained. Today I made a typo in an editor command and built a fstab for a client which included both /dev/ndpX /pub nfs ro 0 0 and server:/pub.XXX /crossbar/server/pub.XXX nfs ro 0 0 and had a wee problem booting. As you might guess, the client came up with a "giving up on /pub" message, but it aso came up and without any pub at all. So I put the fstab back to the way it was supposed to be by mounting /dev/ndlX and copying back the old copy. But when I rebooted, there was no change. I inspected the fstab, and sure enough, it was correct (ie, I hadn't finger-errored THAT). After halting the net, I managed to get the client up single-user cleanly, but still without /pub. So I nfs-mounted it. Now everyone boots ok, but two clients use ndp partitions and nd to get to pub and one used nfs. This is faintly puzzling. This is, in a word, WIERD. My wife explained it rather well, though. The ND daemon on the client was so shocked to be competing with the NFS daemon that it died of shame. Now its afraid to access the /pub partition, lest it be embarassed again. --dave (once is happenstance, or a finger error twice is coincidence, or stupidity three time and **I** die of shame) c-b -- David Collier-Brown. | yunexus!lethe!dave Interleaf Canada Inc. | 1550 Enterprise Rd. | He's so smart he's dumb. Mississauga, Ontario | --Joyce C-B