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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14238

           Summary: mountnetwork, smgl-default-remote-fs, etc ordered
                    according to broken principles. Corrections supplied.
           Product: Codex
           Version: stable grimoire
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: smgl
        AssignedTo: sm-grimoire-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: eekee57 AT fastmail.fm


init.d orders mountnetwork to run before nfs, making all nfs mounts fail at 
boot
time.

I have little idea how simpleinit-msb and init.d work, but I can see that
network mounting is quite broken. Here is a list of criterion that 
mountnetwork
and remote filesystem scripts should meet:

1 mountnetwork should not provide anything that nfs or any other
  network file system requires.
2 nfs, nfslock, and other network mount scripts should provide a
  network_mounting_facility token of some kind.
3 mountnetwork should not run until any and all providers of
  network_mounting_facility have run.    ¡¡¡This is the important one!!!
4 mountnetwork should not depend on portmap. nfs and nfslock need
  portmap, other network file systems may not.

I cannot over-stress point 3. mountnetwork should never run until init has at
least attempted to start all enabled providers of network mounting facilities.

There is no need for smgl-default-remote-fs. Nothing actually requires the
network mounting script except sysadmin-written lines in /etc/fstab. nfs may
exist and run without any network mount script at all, e.g. in an nfs server.
(Well I could be wrong on this one, but certainly no provider of network
filesystems should require the network mount script.)

If the above guidelines are kept to a graceful fail case is possible for
mountnetwork. If there are no providers of network_mounting_facility enabled
then mountnetwork may fail with no more than a warning, making it safe for
accidental installation.

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