netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation

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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 18:23:40 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS
	mount operation

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 17:20 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Traditionally the mount command has looked for a ":" to separate the
> server's hostname from the export path in the mounted on device name,
> like this:
> 
> 	mount server:/export /mounted/on/dir
> 
> The server's hostname is "server" and the export path is "/export".
> 
> You can also substitute a specific IPv4 network address for the server
> hostname, like this:
> 
> 	mount 192.168.0.55:/export /mounted/on/dir
> 
> Raw IPv6 addresses present a problem, however, because they look
> something like this:
> 
> 	fe80::200:5aff:fe00:30b
> 
> Note the use of colons.
> 
> To get around the presence of colons, copy the Solaris convention used for
> mounting IPv6 servers by address: wrap a raw IPv6 address with square
> brackets.

Standardising is good, so we should definitely support any pre-existing
Solaris conventions. However is there any reason why we couldn't use the
sequence ':/' as the separator for the IP address and the pathname for
cases where we're in doubt?

In other words, if it turns out that 'fe80' is the actual hostname, and
':200:5aff:fe00:30b' is the root pathname component, then is there any
reason why 'mount.nfs' couldn't reformat that as
'fe80:/:200:5aff:fe00:30b'?

Cheers
  Trond

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