From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: making the 'addr=' mount option an address hint
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:22:59 -0400
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Cc: Jeff Layton <jtlayton@poochiereds.net>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
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su den 17.07.2005 Klokka 18:51 (+0200) skreiv Olaf Kirch:
> > So, what I'd like to do is roll a patch for mount to change the behavior
> > of the 'addr=' option. Instead of ignoring it, we'd treat it as an
> > address hint. If one of the addresses returned by gethostbyname()
> > matches this address, then we'd mount using that address. Otherwise, the
> > existing behavior would prevail (use the first address in the list).
> 
> Why just use it as a hint? Why not override address resolution completely
> when addr= is given?

How would this differ from just using the ip address instead of hostname
syntax?

Cheers,
  Trond


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