nfs_client_enable=YES usage

2006-12-14 Thread Frank Staals
I am running a nfs-client and nfs-server here for quite some time and 
I'm very happy about it. The client is my laptop ( running 6.1-RELEASE ) 
and the server a 6.0-STABLE machine. I have enabled nfs_client with 
nfs_client_enable=YES on my FreeBSD laptop as stated in the handbook: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html 
allthough when I'm not at home I notice FreeBSD halting during boot 
after NFS access cache time=2 , when I hit ctrl+c it continues fine. 
Since I always mount my NFS dirs manually I started wondering about how 
usefull the entry in /etc/rc.conf was. So I quoted out 
nfs_client_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and I still could mount my nfs 
dirs perfectly


So my question was: Is the entry in rc.conf only needed when mounting a 
nfs dir at boot ? or is it not needed at all ( since my test proved it 
isn't needed when you mount the dirs manually after boot )


.. now I have yet to figure out why my ndis NIC won't work when 
disableing nfs_client :S 



--
-Frank Staals


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Re: nfs_client_enable=YES usage

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Royle

Frank Staals wrote:
I am running a nfs-client and nfs-server here for quite some time and 
I'm very happy about it. The client is my laptop ( running 6.1-RELEASE 
) and the server a 6.0-STABLE machine. I have enabled nfs_client with 
nfs_client_enable=YES on my FreeBSD laptop as stated in the 
handbook: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html 
allthough when I'm not at home I notice FreeBSD halting during boot 
after NFS access cache time=2 , when I hit ctrl+c it continues fine. 
Since I always mount my NFS dirs manually I started wondering about 
how usefull the entry in /etc/rc.conf was. So I quoted out 
nfs_client_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and I still could mount my nfs 
dirs perfectly


So my question was: Is the entry in rc.conf only needed when mounting 
a nfs dir at boot ? or is it not needed at all ( since my test proved 
it isn't needed when you mount the dirs manually after boot )



Referenced from man rc.conf ...

nfs_client_enable - If set to YES run the NFS client daemons at boot 
time.  

You would need this option enabled to connect to a NFS server on boot, 
otherwise it is not needed.
.. now I have yet to figure out why my ndis NIC won't work when 
disableing nfs_client :S 




Cheers,

Jeff
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