[ofa-general] NFS over RDMA

Jon Mason jon at opengridcomputing.com
Fri Mar 6 07:39:24 PST 2009


On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:38:53PM +0200, Yossi Etigin wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> I've installed OFED-1.4.1-rc1 on rh5.2, and tried to use nfs-utils 1.1.1 
> to mount with "rdma" option. mount.nfs did not recognize "rdma" option. 
> Also, the "-i" switch
> which tells to pass mount options to the kernel "as-is"
> is supported only for kernels 2.6.23 and above (in nfs-utils,
> utils/mount/mount.c, line 466).
>
> So - how to mount nfs-rdma on older kernels, for which there
> are backports in OFED 1.4.1?

There is a version of nfs-utils that I modified to allow older kernels to
mount using rdma.  I am in the process of turning it into a SRPM, and
should have something out later today for inclusion into OFED.

Thanks,
Jon

>
> Thanks,
> --Yossi
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