[ofa-general] question about partitioning IB networks

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com>wrote:

> On 09:17 Thu 03 Sep     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > >  Also it says the default partition will be created “unconditionally
> even
> > > when partition configuration file does not exist or cannot be
> accessed.”
> > >  Will it also be created if the partition configuration file exists but
> does
> > > not have a default partition defined?
> > >
> > No.
>
> AFAIR OpenSM will create the default partition even before partitions
> config file parsing, when the file exists it will be:
>
> Default=0x7fff: ALL=limited, SELF=full;
>
> (no IPoIB there). And this can be overwritten by configuration.
>

 Indeed it does (since the default partition is always required). The man
page (and partition doc) should be updated to clarify this.

-- Hal



>
> Sasha
>
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