Archlinux pNFS Client Setup
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Installing Archlinux
- The beginners guide will walk you through the install process
- Note that special configuration is needed if you want to run Archlinux through KVM
Installing pNFS Enabled Archlinux kernel
- There are three ways of installing a pNFS enabled Archlinux kernel. Through pacman, through the AUR, or by directly downloading.
Pacman
- Edit /etc/pacman.conf to add the pNFS repository
[pnfs] Server = http://linux-nfs.org/~bjschuma/archlinux/$arch
- Then install the kernel
sudo pacman -Sy kernel26-pNFS
AUR
- See the guide for using the AUR
- Download the tarball from the package page
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kernel26-pnfs/kernel26-pnfs.tar.gz
- Extract and compile
tar -xvf kernel26-pnfs.tar.gz cd kernel26-pnfs makepkg
- Install the resulting package using pacman
sudo pacman -U kernel26-pnfs-*.pkg.tar.xz
Directly Downloading
- Download the precompiled package from linux-nfs.org
wget http://linux-nfs.org/~bjschuma/archlinux/i686/kernel26-pNFS-2.6.39.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
or
wget http://linux-nfs.org/~bjschuma/archlinux/x86_64/kernel26-pNFS-2.6.39.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
- Install package using pacman
sudo pacman -U kernel26-pnfs-*.pkg.tar.xz
Configure Grub
- Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the pNFS kernel
- Replace /dev/vda3 with your root device
title Arch Linux pNFS root kernel /vmlinuz26-pnfs root=/dev/vda3 ro initrd /kernel26-pnfs.img title Arch Linux pNFS Fallback root kernel /vmlinuz26-pnfs root=/dev/vda3 ro initrd /kernel26-pnfs-fallback.img
