On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:51:21 +0800 Hamo <hamo.by@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I don't think we ought to try and do this in nfs-utils. I see no reason that the architecture should have any effect at all on the sort order of address families being returned. If there is, then that sounds like a (libc?) bug on those arches. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
