Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: mounting NFS filesystems directly under the root Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 89 17:13:09 GMT References: <299@wzv.uucp> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 13 Avoiding NFS-mounts in the root directory is fine. Except that SunOS4.0 uses the /tmp/.getwd efficiency hack. Whenever /etc/mtab is updated, getwd() will try to stat() all the filesystems mounted to try to update /tmp/.getwd. If any NFS server is hosed, all getwd() calls will hang. This should happen rarely--/etc/mtab doesn't change too often. Except when you're using the automounter. Serendipity. Sigh. -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!shire!flee