> > So if you reboot your server, mountd will loose
> > its list, and as the client has alerady the FS mounted, it never
> > makes a mount request to mountd, so mountd can't register it again.
> 
> mountd keeps a copy of the list on disk and uses it
> to initialize its in-core database when started.
> (/var/db/mountdtab, it's plain text)

Of course, immediately before mountd is started, NetBSD's /etc/rc
clears mountdtab.

"So nice of you to keep that database!  Here, let me delete it for
you!"



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