[ewg] Re: NFS-RDMA nfs-utils SRPM

[Steve Wise]

Vlad:

Tziporet asked that I host this src rpm.

So the official URL is:

http://www.openfabrics.org:~swise/ofed_1_4/rnfs-utils

Please alter jons patches to the build scripts accordingly.

Thanks!


Steve.


Jon Mason wrote:
> Hey Vlad,
> I have a working SRPM for nfs-utils.  There is a fairly large design
> decision I made, that I wanted to make you aware of before you pull this
> in.  The nfs-utils RPM has some things that are very specific to each
> distro.  Specifically, the init scripts to start/stop the nfs daemon.
> I chose to work around this issue by only installing the mount part
> necessary for mounting RDMA NFS connections, and naming it mount.rnfs.
> This prevents any collisions with the existing nfs-utils, and thus the
> same init scripts are still there with the original nfs-utils RPM.  This
> is VERY similar to what Tom Tucker did for the OFED 1.2 backport.
>
> Per your instructions I have created the diffs to add support for the
> modified nfs-utils.  I have attached the files necessary to this e-mail.
> Let me know if there are any problems.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon