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

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi Paul.
> 
> Nice to meet you here, it's a small world ;)
> 
> 
> Good to see this enabled in Debian by default, however, this alone seems
> to be not enough.
> 
> Whenever I tried this with dCache, I could mount a remoute pnfs, listing
> worked, but when reading/writing I got IO errors.
> 
> 
> The reason seems that one needs a modprobe config like this (Tigran told
> me the trick today):
> 
> alias nfs-layouttype4-1 nfs_layout_nfsv41_files
> alias nfs-layouttype4-2 nfs_layout_osd2_objects
> alias nfs-layouttype4-3 off
[...]
> Ben, I guess nfs-common would be the right package for such a file, right?

If these module aliases are actually needed (I'll have to check
this) then they should be defined in the modules themselves.

Ben.

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