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From: nash@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Richard Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NFS Question
Message-ID: <10086@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 90 14:43:50 GMT
Reply-To: nash@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Richard Nash)
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   I have a machine with a partitioned 660 meg disk. They are mounted
as / and /users. I want to use nfs to mount all of my machines in
/Net and I am having trouble with this one.
Machine A has the 2 partitions.
Machine B tries to mount the two partitions as /Net/A and /Net/A/users.
This works fine if machine A is up and running, but if it backgrounds the
mounts I have a race condition. If it mounts /Net/A/users first, then the
mount of /Net/A fails. If the mounts happen in the oposite order then
the both work.

Is there anyway to correct this? I know I could fix it by changing the
path point at which /users mounts to something like /Net/A.users but
I like the uniform view of the net that the first way gives me.

Thanks in advance, Rich

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Richard V. Nash
nash@vi.ri.cmu.edu