Archlinux pNFS Client Setup

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Latest revision as of 13:14, 27 June 2011

Contents 1 Installing Archlinux 2 Installing pNFS Enabled Archlinux kernel 2.1 Pacman 2.2 AUR 2.3 Directly Downloading 3 Configure Grub

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