From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Subject: Re: automount hangs in D state
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:13:06 GMT


In article <1992Dec10.200111.7560@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>, dbk@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Don Katz) writes:

|>Here are the direct maps I'm using, in case some clue is in there:

|># direct map for gatekeeper
|>#
|>#
|>/gate\
|>	/        -ro,intr,soft,bg,noexec        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive \
|>	/.1     -ro,intr,soft,bg,noexec        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.1\ 
|>	/.2     -ro,intr,soft,bg,noexec        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.2\ 
|>	/.3     -ro,intr,soft,bg,noexec        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.3

The map for gatekeeper isn't the current one.  Here's blurb about the
current NFS setup:

Gatekeeper.DEC.COM:/archive/README.nfs
Created: 06May92 by Paul Vixie
Revised: 29Oct92 by Colleen Hawk

Gatekeeper's anonymous FTP archive is exported via read-only NFS to the whole
universe.  To mount it, we recommend the use of the automounter whose table
should be modified to include...

archive \
        /       -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive \
        /.1     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.1 \
        /.2     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.2 \
        /.3     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.3 \
        /.4     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.4 \
        /.5     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.5 \
        /.6     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.6 \
        /.7     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.7 \
        /.8     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.8 \
        /.9     -ro,intr,soft,bg        gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive/.9 


Note that the partitions change from time to time; if you get mysterious
failures after using this successfully for a while, get the latest copy
of this (README.nfs) file and find out what has changed.  Regrettably there
is no elegant way for us to inform our NFS clients of what has changed.

Note, also, that parts of this archive contain symbolic links to other parts
of this archive, and that regrettably, some of these symbolic links are
absolute rather than relative.  This means that you will be happier if you
either mount this stuff on /archive, or make /archive on your computer a
symbolic link to the place you actually mount it.

If you insist on gumming up your /etc/fstab file with distant and unreliable
file systems, the syntax you'll need is left as an exercise for you, the
uninitiated.

Complaints about this can be sent to <gw-archives@pa.dec.com>.  Good luck.


IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE:

       GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE SOFTWARE MADE AVAILABLE UNDER THIS PROGRAM
       IT IS HEREBY NOTED THAT ALL SOFTWARE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE
       WHICH CONTAIN ITAR CONTROLLED CONTENT, ARE BEING MADE AVAILABLE FOR
       GENERAL ACCESS UNDER GENERAL TECHNICAL DATA AVAILABLE (GTDA) AS
       PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE U.S. EXPORT REGULATIONS.

       BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE ARCHIVE AND THE QUANTITY OF PEOPLE WHO USE
       IT, DIGITAL ADVISES ALL USERS THAT IT IS THE LEGAL OBLIGATION OF THE
       INDIVIDUAL WHO ACCESSES THIS ARCHIVE TO COMPLY WITH THE U.S. STATE
       DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS WHICH GOVERN THE TRANSFER OF CERTAIN SOFTWARE
       PRODUCTS WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO MEET MILITARY SPECIFICATIONS (LIKE
       AERIAL MAPPING) AND/OR USED IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS (PRODUCTS WHICH
       CONTAIN THE DES ALGORITHM FOR FILE/DATA ENCRYPTION).
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