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

2011-08-18 Thread Stefan Kluth
Hi Chris, 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 With dCache it already works with the first line, any 2 and 3

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

2011-08-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Stefan. On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 19:13 +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote: you should perhaps file a bug report againt nfs-common then? Presumably these lines don't harm when NFS4.1 is not active? I have already,... but due to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638045 my locally

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

2011-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
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,

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

2011-08-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 20:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: 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 [...]

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

2011-08-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
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

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

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Thursday 21 July 2011 01:01:19 Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] How about we start by enabling NFSv4.1 starting with release candidates for Linux 3.1, and see what feedback we get for that? That sounds OK, I guess, but it does introduce a significant delay. BTW, will the release

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

2011-07-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 12:13 +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Hi Ben, On Thursday 21 July 2011 01:01:19 Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] How about we start by enabling NFSv4.1 starting with release candidates for Linux 3.1, and see what feedback we get for that? That sounds OK, I guess, but it does

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

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Thursday 21 July 2011 12:51:11 Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 12:13 +0200, Paul Millar wrote: [..] but it does introduce a significant delay. Linux 3.1-rc1 should be out in 3 weeks or less. Ah! OK, that's not too bad. I thought it would be longer. BTW, will the

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

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 17:09 +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Hi Ben, Thanks for the update. On Friday 15 July 2011 16:32:41 Ben Hutchings wrote: No news. The question remains, what the cost may be to other NFS users. Certainly NFS v4.1 is not a minor change, and it adds a lot of new code to

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

2011-07-18 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, Thanks for the update. On Friday 15 July 2011 16:32:41 Ben Hutchings wrote: No news. The question remains, what the cost may be to other NFS users. Certainly NFS v4.1 is not a minor change, and it adds a lot of new code to the nfs module. I guess the question is how do we go forward

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

2011-07-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:27 +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Hi Ben, On Monday 23 May 2011 18:48:56 Ben Hutchings wrote: [wishlist: NFS-4.1 / pNFS support] Anyway, I have no objection to enabling this unless it is likely to cause regressions for other NFS users. Is there any news on enabling

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

2011-07-13 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Ben, On Monday 23 May 2011 18:48:56 Ben Hutchings wrote: [wishlist: NFS-4.1 / pNFS support] Anyway, I have no objection to enabling this unless it is likely to cause regressions for other NFS users. Is there any news on enabling NFS v4.1? Can I do anything to help? Cheers, Paul. --

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

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Millar
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

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

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Millar
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-1 Severity: important Recent kernels include support for NFS v4.1. More recently still, the kernel has included support for NFS v4.1's parallel NFS or pNFS. These options (CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 and CONFIG_PNFS_FILE_LAYOUT) may be built as modules, so are loaded on

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

2011-05-23 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 627655 wishlist thanks On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Severity: important Please specify, why this is appropriate. Current Debain Linux kernels are build with neither option enabled (the PNFS one is even missing from the config file). Noone requested

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2011-05-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#627655: linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae: missing NFS4.1 / pNFS support

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Millar
Hi Bastian, On Monday 23 May 2011 12:17:00 Bastian Blank wrote: severity 627655 wishlist thanks On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Severity: important Please specify, why this is appropriate. Sure. Some scientific communities require access to huge amounts of

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

2011-05-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 15:03 +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Hi Bastian, On Monday 23 May 2011 12:17:00 Bastian Blank wrote: severity 627655 wishlist thanks On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Paul Millar wrote: Severity: important Please specify, why this is appropriate.