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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: PATCH:  Support binding to a local IPv4 address when mounting
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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:16:03 -0800
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On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 23:43 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> I re-worked the kernel nfs local-address-binding logic against 
> 2.6.29-rc5.  In quick testing,
> this works with IPv4 and NFSv3 at least.  I changed the attribute to be 
> called 'bindaddr'
> as previously suggested.

Most of the changes are to NFSv4-specific code, and I definitely want
those code paths tested before considering this patch.

> I didn't actually make any further changes to the mount.nfs tool and it 
> took the bindaddr=a.b.c.d
> just fine, so maybe there are no changes at all needed in user-space.
> 
> Comments & suggestions welcome.

Remind me again what the application is?

Trond