The automatic mount process
The automatic mounting process starts when your system first enters system
state 3. This whole process is performed by the /etc/rc3.d/S22nfs
script, which also contains other commands not related to the mounting
process. The following sequence of events relates to the mounting process
carried out by the S22nfs script.
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The script executes the shareall program, which reads the server's
/etc/dfs/dfstab file, then tells the kernel which resources the
server can share and what access restrictions (if any) are on these files.
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It then starts the nfsd daemon,
which is used in server operations.
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S22nfs starts the biod daemon,
which is used in client operations.
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It then starts mountd,
which processes mount requests.
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S22nfs then starts
lockd, which processes lock requests, and
statd, which interacts with lockd to provide crash
and recovery functions for the locking services.
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The script starts the
mountall
program with the -F nfs option, which reads the client's
vfstab file and mounts all NFS-type files mentioned there
in a manner similar to an explicit mount (see
``The explicit mount process'').
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004