[nfs-rdma-devel] [ofa-general] Status of NFS-RDMA ?

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Wed Jan 30 11:11:00 PST 2008



On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, James Lentini wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Pawel Dziekonski wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 at 09:53:46AM -0500, James Lentini wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is your goal to build a kernel with an NFS/RDMA server? If so, the 
> > > kernel sources from Tom Tucker's git tree are the ones you want, not 
> > > the old OFED 1.2-based packages which are out of date.
> > > 
> > > Did you try setting up the NFS/RDMA server on the kernel used for your 
> > > MPI tests above?
> > 
> > my goal is to have everything running on my fabric- NFS/RDMA, MPI,
> > IPoverIB, SDP.
> >
> > my current status is:
> > 
> > - Tom Tucker's git tree compiled and running
> > - compiled OFED from
> >   http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/NFSoRDMA/OFED-1.2-NFS-RDMA.gz
> >   (whatever it is - who knows?) - MPI is working, SDP not.
> > 
> > - nfs-utils 1.1.1 compiled and:
> > 
> > nfs server start:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap restart
> > modprobe nfs
> > umount /proc/fs/nfsd
> > mount -t nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd
> > exportfs -av
> > rpc.mountd
> > rpc.statd --no-notify
> > rpc.nfsd
> > sm-notify
> > 
> > # cat /etc/exports
> > /scratch 10.2.2.2(no_subtree_check,insecure,rw,async,no_root_squash)
> > 
> > nfs client start:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap restart
> > modprobe nfs
> > sm-notify
> > 
> > # mount.rnfs -o rdma=10.2.2.1 10.2.2.1:/scratch /mnt
> > Doing nfs/rdma mount to 10.2.2.1, mount protocol to 10.2.2.1
> > nfsmount: Invalid argument
> 
> Are you using the mount.nfs command you built from nfs-utils-1.1.1? If 
> you installed nfs-utils, you should be doing something like this 
> (mount will redirect to /sbin/mount.nfs if it is present):
> 
> /sbin/mount <IPoIB-server-name-or-address>:/<export> /mnt -i -o rdma,port=2050

or /bin/mount if that is where your mount command lives.

> There is more info here:
> 
> http://nfs-rdma.sourceforge.net/Documents/README
> 
> > :(
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pawel Dziekonski <pawel.dziekonski at wcss.pl>
> > Wroclaw Centre for Networking & Supercomputing, HPC Department
> > Politechnika Wr., pl. Grunwaldzki 9, bud. D2/101, 50-377 Wroclaw, POLAND
> > phone: +48 71 3202043, fax: +48 71 3225797, http://www.wcss.wroc.pl
> > 
> 
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