Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: NFS as a module / kerneld question | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:39:06 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
Peter Desnoyers wrote: > >>But what if you _did_ use them (the NFS module was autoloaded, remember?), >>but not any more (which is why you'd want the kernel/kerneld to auto-remove >>it)? > >I find it hard to imagine an environment where you would occasionally >NFS-mount something. If you did, you would probably be using the >auto-mounter, which uses NFS continuously anyway. > I sometimes find that I need a bunch of files from A on B. The easiest thing to do is to just do an NFS mount, pull the files, then unmount the server. Same thing when I need to read a DOS or Macintosh floppy. Setting up the automounter for that is just plain stupid. (Do _you_ use the automounter for floppies?)
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