From: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: making the 'addr=' mount option an address hint
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:09:04 -0700
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On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 13:55 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 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.

Another option would be to make programs that inspect the mount list
(like the mount command :) optionally do a reverse lookup on IP
addresses when listing mounts, or even have them do it by defauylt.

Arguably, it'd be better to have IP addresses in the source list, to
reduce ambiguity anyway.




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