Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

[Paul Millar <paul.millar@desy.de>]

Hi Ben,

On Monday 23 May 2011 18:48:56 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I believe this is a "major effect on the usability of a package, without
> > rendering it completely unusable to everyone."
> 
> [...]
> 
> Well, not really.  I agree this is an important feature, but generally
> feature requests are still 'wishlist'.  The only exception is for
> missing hardware support which can be 'important'.

Sorry, me bad.  I think Bastian has already reclassified this bug as a 
'wishlist'.

> Anyway, I have no objection to enabling this unless it is likely to
> cause regressions for other NFS users.

Thanks.

There should be no direct effect: one has to specify the option 
"minorversion=1" before nfs-utils will attempt to mount with NFS v4.1.  
Without this option then NFS v4 would be attempted (if the server supports 
v4).

I normally pull all my updates from sid; but if you let me know when there's a 
new kernel in experimental then I can test it, if that's any help.

Cheers,

Paul.