kernel-modules-extra and GFS2

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had some reports recently that appeared to suggest that in F17,
> GFS2 was no longer being supported by the kernel. Having investigated
> this, it appears that the root cause is that the gfs2.ko module has been
> moved to a package called kernel-modules-extra (although the kernel RPM
> still contains the directory in which the gfs2 module sits, which is a
> bit odd - why package an empty directory?)
> 
> Now, I'm wondering whether I should add a dependency on
> kernel-modules-extra in the gfs2-utils package?

Why not just open a BZ requesting that gfs2 be moved back into the
main kernel RPM. IMHO having gfs2 in a separate kernel RPM just creates
unnecessary complexity/pain for users.

Regards,
Daniel
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