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    NFS: Add new 'mountaddr=' mount option · 0ac83779
    Chuck Lever authored
    I got the 'mounthost=' option wrong - it shouldn't look for an address
    value, but rather a hostname value.  However, the in-kernel mount client
    and NFS client cannot resolve a hostname by themselves; they rely on
    user-land to pass in the resolved address.
    
    Create a new mount option that does take an address so that the mount
    program's address can be passed in.  The mount hostname is now ignored
    by the kernel.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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