On 08/04/13 10:08, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 09:39 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: >> >> On 02/04/13 15:32, Simo Sorce wrote: >>> A NFS client should be able to work properly even if the DNS Reverse record >>> for the server is not set. There is no excuse to forcefully prevent that >>> from working when it can. >>> >>> This patch adds a new pair of options (-z/-Z) that allow to turn on/off >>> DNS reverse resolution for determining the server name to use with GSSAPI. >> Again, please tell me why we need the -Z flag when that is the default? > > The idea is to switch the default in the code at some point, so then -Z > will be needed to get back to the original behavior. I'm thinking that's what major version number changes are for... not flags... > > The idea is that by having both flags a distribution may choose to > decide now what behavior they want and use the relative flag. Then even > if we change the default their configuration will not "break". I'll do the work to remove the option and repost the patches.. steved. -- 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
