[openib-general] OpenSM - guid2lid cache file questions

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Leonid,

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 08:11, Leonid Arsh wrote:
> Hi Hal,
> 
>   Thank you for your reply.
> 
> Probably I wasn't clear.
> 
> I have a problem when OpenSM, being started, reads an out-if-date guid2lid file.
> OpenSM changes LIDs in this case.

How do you know the file is "out of date" ?

> I don't want  the LIDs to be changed.

Oh, it's the other way you were asking about.

> As I understand it, the '-r' option, on the contrary, causes the SM to
> reassign all the LIDs.
> 
> I could just remove the file to handle the problem.

or move it aside.

> I'd like to know if there is a way to do it without touching the file.

Not currently. There is the -x (--honor_guid2lid) which will do this
(ignore the guid2lid file) when OpenSM is coming out of STANDBY though.

-- Hal

> Thanks,
>     Leonid
> 
> On 05 Sep 2006 06:57:53 -0400, Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com> wrote:
> > Hi Leonid,
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 03:30, Leonid Arsh wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > >  I have a question regarding the guid2lid cache file.
> > >
> > >   The file is read by OpenSM on the start up.
> > >   OpenSM may reassign LIDs according to the LIDs saved in this file.
> > >  It isn't always acceptable.
> > >
> > >  Is it a right policy? Am I missing anything here?
> > >  Is there a way to disable the file reading on start up?
> >
> > There is the -r (--reassign_lids) option for this but it is not the
> > default behavior of OpenSM.
> >
> > -- Hal
> >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >    Leonid
> > >
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