Quoting Berndt Josef Wulf,

> I have a diskless Sun 3/60 which I use as an X-Terminal since NetBSD
> doesn't have a Xserver supporting the Diamond Stealth Trio 64 graphics
> card on an DEC alpha based AXPpci system.

[...]

> The problem now is, when returning the Sun into service, it will try
> to nfs-mount the directories - which the server believes havn't been
> umounted from the previous session and mountd on the nfs-server dies.

In what way does it die? Does it crash, or just exit?

> I relise that the NetBSD-alpha port of nfs is buggy, but there must be
> an easier way in dealing with the above problem.

I certainly hope it isn't worse than on the other NetBSD ports, all
32<->64 bit problems should be eliminated now..

- Frank