From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: making the 'addr=' mount option an address hint Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:55:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1121709311.23863.14.camel@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> References: <1121614708.6713.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050717165143.GD22503@suse.de> <1121700179.8780.1.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Olaf Kirch , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DuZpz-0005qC-4K for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:55:31 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1DuZpx-0000o2-SD for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:55:31 -0700 To: Trond Myklebust In-Reply-To: <1121700179.8780.1.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 11:22 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > How would this differ from just using the ip address instead of hostname > syntax? It would allow you to keep a hostname in the host section of the mount string. When looking at a large list of NFS mounts, that is much easier to read than looking at IP addresses. -- Jeff Layton ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs