Bug#657078: linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64: Support for new NFS id mapper

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

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:43:18PM +0100, Rik Theys wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 3.2.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please consider enabling the new NFS ID mapper functionality in the kernel:
> 
> CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER
> 
> This will also need support in nfs-utils.
>
> Enabling this feature should prevent page allocation failure errors we frequently
> get on our file servers, as mentioned on
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593035
[...]

The allocation failure has already been reported as #636306.  I
proposed a fix for that in <http://bugs.debian.org/636306#35>.

Ben.

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