[976] in Athena Bugs
attach: explicit RVD mounts, man-page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 19 11:05:10 1988
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 88 11:04:18 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-attach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rt-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
This bug applies to 6.0C & 6.0R:
42% attach -x -e odie:rtinstall
odie:rtinstall: Illegal explicit definition for type NFS
First, according to the man page:
-noexplicit or -x
Tell attach to interpret the filesystem as a Hesiod
name. This if the default.
I thought we were going to keep backwards-compatibility with the old -x
option for exclusive mode spinups. Actually, it worked as an exclusive
mode spinup, so the man-page is in error.
Second, given the syntax that I used, is it not obvious that I am not
attempting to access a directory (doesn't a full path have to be
supplied)? Thus can't you assume I am attempting to mount an RVD pack
rather than an NFS filesystem?
-Richard
