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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt index 5efae00f6c7f..1513e5d663fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt @@ -123,10 +123,13 @@ ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>: Default: Determined using autoconfiguration. - <hostname> Name of the client. May be supplied by autoconfiguration, - but its absence will not trigger autoconfiguration. - If specified and DHCP is used, the user provided hostname will - be carried in the DHCP request to hopefully update DNS record. + <hostname> Name of the client. If a '.' character is present, anything + before the first '.' is used as the client's hostname, and anything + after it is used as its NIS domain name. May be supplied by + autoconfiguration, but its absence will not trigger autoconfiguration. + If specified and DHCP is used, the user-provided hostname (and NIS + domain name, if present) will be carried in the DHCP request; this + may cause a DNS record to be created or updated for the client. Default: Client IP address is used in ASCII notation. |