NFS: Add new 'mountaddr=' mount option
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: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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