[ewg] Re: NFS-RDMA nfs-utils SRPM

[Yossi Etigin]

Hi Jon,

I tried to use the attached src RPM and failed.
First, it did not compile on SLES10SP2 - missing TAILQ_EMPTY definition.
Then, I compiled it on RH5.1 and tried to mount. I got this:

# mount.rnfs 192.168.8.160:/ /mnt -o port=2050 -v
mount.rnfs: mount to NFS server '192.168.8.160' failed: RPC Error: Success

And nothing was mounted.

Besides that, there are problems with nfs-rdma kernel part on the distros:
1. The install.pl script part which checks nfsrdma availability on distor's is commented out.
2. On rh5.1 nfs.ko module cannot be loaded because of missing symbols

Jon Mason wrote:
> Hey Vlad,
> I have a working SRPM for nfs-utils.  There is a fairly large design
> decision I made, that I wanted to make you aware of before you pull this
> in.  The nfs-utils RPM has some things that are very specific to each
> distro.  Specifically, the init scripts to start/stop the nfs daemon.
> I chose to work around this issue by only installing the mount part
> necessary for mounting RDMA NFS connections, and naming it mount.rnfs.
> This prevents any collisions with the existing nfs-utils, and thus the
> same init scripts are still there with the original nfs-utils RPM.  This
> is VERY similar to what Tom Tucker did for the OFED 1.2 backport.
> 
> Per your instructions I have created the diffs to add support for the
> modified nfs-utils.  I have attached the files necessary to this e-mail.
> Let me know if there are any problems.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
> 
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