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From: sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: NFS mount of /usr
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Date: 29 Jul 92 17:59:19 GMT
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I've been playing around with NFS and such and it's working just fine, so
I've
tried to take NFS to it's next logical step on my 39 MB system -- NFS
mounting
/usr.  However, 386BSD seems to think that this is just a horrible idea and
I've had no end of trouble.

If I leave the rc file intact, I get a system hang after 'starting system
logger'.

If I edit the rc file and remove all but the very basest of network
commands, I get a hang after the rc file finishes.  /usr is mounted
correctly (as a ls /usr shows from the rc file) and the script does reach
the exit 0 (as an echo statement shows) but it hangs after that.  Once I
did get a kernal panic error message after about 2-3 minutes of nothing,
other times it just seems to hang forever.

If I edit the rc file to hardcode my old usr directory (/oldusr) to every
file located in /usr I get a hang after the rc file ends.  

I've copied /usr/distbin/mount & umount to /bin and I'm running the 0.1
patched
kernal from agate.  Other than initial setup for various /etc/* files to
get
networking and NFS running, no other mods have been made to the system.

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                                        |    jay@seaspray.uacn.alaska.edu
Jay C. Beavers                          |    sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu
University of Alaska Computer Network   |    sxjcb@alaska.bitnet
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