> one slight annoyance i discovered for my project with doing the entire mount
> phase in the kernel is performing name resolution --- although i haven't
> asked here, i've yet to find a way to do 'gethostbyname' from the kernel
> with fabricating my own udp packets. if the mount command was literally
> just a trigger for the kernel, this could be a problem.
Yep. I'd love to have name resolution in the kernel. Right now, I just
have my mount helper resolve names in userspace and pass them to the
kernel, but that's sort of annoying. Also, it doesn't really help me
with hostnames I receive after mount time.
Sigh.
Then again, including a full resolver in the kernel is probably too
much bloat for too little benefit.
--nat
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