On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 at 21:42, Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> wrote: > > As we do not really want to diverge from upstream I will see with them > how we could improve the user experience here, either making it more > clear that when PNFS_BLOCK is enabled as module, the blocklayoutdriver > needs to be enabled, making the service only start as you suggested if > the blocklayoutdriver is loaded and the rpc file present, clearer > documentation or something else.
Interestingly nfs.systemd(7) suggests nfs-blkmap.service needs to be enabled when required, so maybe it should be shipped disabled instead? Kind regards, Andrei

