On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:00:56PM -0700, Zack Perry wrote: > Hi, > > This is my first message to this list. I have been using Fedora 16 and NFSv4 for sometime, and would like to give NFSv4.1 with the pNFS extension a try. > > I understand that according to http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFSv41_Introduction NFSv4.1 is really developer-only at this point, but it should "mostly work" - that's good enough for me. > > The wiki http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_pNFS/spnfsd, states that "As of early 2011, it is mostly unmaintained, and we no longer recommend its use". It then points to http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_server_projects. But, as far as spNFS is concerned, the two wiki pages form a circular reference. The other options for file layout are no go either. > > Then, there is this: http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_Setup_Instructions > which seems to indicate that with a pNFS enabled kernel, a determined user can start testing NFSv4.1 + pNFS. Steve Dickson even has a repository here: http://steved.fedorapeople.org/repos/pnfs/devel/x86_64/rpms/ > > Can anyone kind enough to give a short summary as to how to proceed for testing NFSv4.1 + pNFS using Fedora 16 nodes as servers? My impression is that the most likely to work possibilities are either the exofs-based or gfs2-based servers. Boaz Harosh might be able to help with the latter. I don't know if the wiki instructions are up to date. You probably need to build a kernel from Benny's git tree in either case. --b. > > As of now, all my Fedora 16 nodes have the following from a regular kickstart install: > [root@fedora0 ~]# uname -a > Linux fedora0 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Apr 21 12:43:20 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [root@fedora0 ~]# rpm -q nfs-utils > nfs-utils-1.2.5-5.fc16.x86_64 > [root@fedora0 ~]# cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions > +2 +3 +4 -4.1 > > Thanks, > > Zack > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
