Ultrix 3.1 NFS mounting strangeness

[Ian! D. Allen [CGL]]

# mount host:/    /tmp/xx/
# mount host:/usr /tmp/xx/usr
nfs_mount: cannot mount host:/usr on /tmp/xx/usr: No such file or directory
# ls -l /tmp/xx >/dev/null
# mount host:/usr /tmp/xx/usr

The first mount of /usr fails, the one done after the ls works.
(The ls will show that /tmp/xx/usr is really there, and is a directory.)
This strangeness doesn't happen if you don't have the trailing slash on
the /tmp/xx/ when you mount the root.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
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