Re: [PATCH] mount.nfs: ensure AF priority when mounting

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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Hamo wrote:
>
>> On different architectures, getaddrinfo() may return different
>> orders of address families. This may confuse the users.
>
> Isn't this controlled by /etc/gai.conf ?  I'm not sure we want mount.nfs to override that.
>

After digging into this file, I found the order can be controlled by
this file, but without it, the order is not predictable.
Should we first try IPv6 then IPv4? This sounds reasonable.
So now, I am also not sure should we override this. Waiting for the
opinions from others.
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