[1003] in Athena Bugs
Re: attach in 6.0R VS2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert S. French)
Tue Sep 20 18:33:53 1988
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 88 18:32:50 EDT
From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
When attach fails to contact the NFS server trying to mount a
filesystem, it goes on to try to map that filesystem. If the mount
failed because we couldn't talk to the server, the mapping will fail
too. And even if it succeeded, what good would it be?
Toto>attach garp:site
garp:site: Timeout while contacting mount daemon on GARP.MIT.EDU
garp:site: while mapping - try attach -n
Toto>
Quite to the contrary, it maps _first_, and then mounts. Otherwise
you couldn't mount fascist file servers. The error you saw was in the
map phase. It _didn't_ go on to try to mount it. The "mount daemon"
handles both mounting and mapping.
Rob
