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   From: andreimpopescu@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 at 21:42, Salvatore Bonaccorso  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   
      
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