Bug 19558
| Summary: | amd doesn't know whether NFS feature is available or not | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Makoto Matsushita <matusita> |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 5.0-CURRENT | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Here is a status of this PR. * No one checks this PR yet. * Amd still doesn't know that FreeBSD is now kernel module and NFS is provided as modules also. Amd should know that there is a kernel which does *not know about NFS. * For users: if you want to use amd as NFS automounter, you should: - add 'options NFS' to your kernel config file, or - add 'nfs_load="YES"' to your /boot/loader.conf. If this is the solution, please close this PR... -- - Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA State Changed From-To: open->closed I agree this is a bug.... but it beyond fixing by me. (at least w/o a patch from you) The right place to address this would to be with someone at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/am-utils/index.html. |
Assume that running kernel does not have NFS feature (no "options NFS" line in kernel config). If you type "mount nfsserver:/path/to/mountpoint /local/path", mount_nfs automatically loads /modules/nfs.ko and the attempts may success. Same scenario can be applied to fstab. Works perfect. However, the amd automounter, does not know how to load NFS module. You can see many warnings if the kernel does not have NFS feature nor you doesn't load NFS modules *before* starting amd. Maybe you say: hey, put 'nfs_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf.local. But why, why mount(8) and fstab(5) works but amd(8) doesn't work? I do not check other filesystems which is supported by amd and has already have its own kernel modules, but maybe the same. Fix: Teach vfsload() and its associated funcalls to amd. How-To-Repeat: - Install /kernel without NFS feature. - Setup /etc/rc.conf{,local} to use amd. - Boot FreeBSD and see how /etc/rc is processed.