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From: dana@tread.sgi.com (Dana Treadwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Writing to a self mounted nfs file system.
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.222842.13655@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 22:28:42 GMT
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Self-mounting (a.k.a., loopback mounting) is not supported over NFS 
due to deadlocks (immediate on MP systems, and upon I/O on SP systems). 
You might look to automount(1M) to solve your /etc/fstab maintenance 
woes.

The mountd complaints in syslog point to a problem with YP/NIS (most 
likely, an out of date /etc/rpc database or domain name confusion).

    Dana
    dana@sgi.com