Subject: Re: dhclient in rc*/netstart
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/27/1999 14:18:23
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:48:45 -0800 (PST) 
 Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:

 > Now I can fix half the problem with some code I'm going to put in
 > to /etc/rc mount all local (ffs, basically) critical filesystems
 > before netstart is run. However, if your /var is an NFS filesystem...

DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

It's certainly possible for the following to occur:

	mount server:/foo /foo
	mount /dev/sd1a /foo/bar

(and, as sick as it seems, I have even seen some reasonable uses for
such a configuration)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>