I tested nfs4 later last night and it worked fine. We'll continue to test more.... The purpose is to allow binding to a specific IP on a multi homed device...this allows tricks with routing tables, for instance... Thanks, Ben Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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 > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in >the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity.
