On 04/29/2016 10:27 AM, Adamson, Andy wrote: > Hi Steve > > Yes, if we decide to keep the multiple hostname option, then a man page update is required. I don't think we have a consensus on using the multiple hostname mount option as a CLI to express session trunking addresses. Chuck Lever made some good points around not using multiple hostnames: > > ---- From Chuck: ---- > - client admins can specify arbitrary hostnames on the command line; hostnames > for instance that correspond to some other server. > > - network conditions can change at anytime, making > the original set of trunks lop-sided, or some trunks > may become unreachable. What if the server reboots > with new i/f's or with one or more removed? The > client would likely have to remount in these cases > to adapt to network configuration changes. > > - multiple hostnames could be nailed into > /etc/fstab on potentially hundreds of clients. When > server or network configuration changes, there would > have to be a manual change on all these clients. > ---------- > > What do you think? Should we keep the multiple hostname CLI as one method of expressing session trunking addresses? I would think so... Just to put some context into this... We are talking about: mount -o v4.1 server1,server2,server3:/export /mnt server1 would be tried, if that fails server2 would be tried? 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
