[ewg] [PATCH] ofed docs: update NFS docs (re-send)

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Mon Nov 16 23:57:09 PST 2009


Jon Mason wrote:
> Add a comment describing why the user must start rpc.statd on SLES10.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Jon Mason <jon at opengridcomputing.com>
> 
> diff --git a/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt b/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
> index d9e99f1..a4369e4 100644
> --- a/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
> +++ b/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
> @@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ NFS/RDMA Setup
>  
>      $ echo rdma 20049 > /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist
>  
> +    NOTE for SLES10 servers: The nfs start scripts on most distro's start
> +    rpc.statd by default.  However, the in-kernel lockd that was in SLES10 has
> +    been removed in the new kernels.  Since OFED is back-porting the new code to
> +    the older distro's, there is no in-kernel lockd in SLES10 and the SLES10
> +    nfsserver scripts do not know the need to start it.  Therefore, the user
> +    MUST start rpc.statd.
> +
>    - On the client system
>  
>      Load the RDMA client module:

Applied,

Regards,
Vladimir




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