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

[Jon Mason]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:46:55PM +0200, Yossi Etigin wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> I tried to use the attached src RPM and failed.
> First, it did not compile on SLES10SP2 - missing TAILQ_EMPTY definition.
> Then, I compiled it on RH5.1 and tried to mount. I got this:
>
> # mount.rnfs 192.168.8.160:/ /mnt -o port=2050 -v
> mount.rnfs: mount to NFS server '192.168.8.160' failed: RPC Error: Success
>
> And nothing was mounted.
>
> Besides that, there are problems with nfs-rdma kernel part on the distros:
> 1. The install.pl script part which checks nfsrdma availability on distor's is commented out.
> 2. On rh5.1 nfs.ko module cannot be loaded because of missing symbols

Thanks for testing, but unfortunately the SLES10sp2 and RHEL5.1
backports are not yet completed.  If you try RHE5.2, you should not see
any issues.

Also, the command to run would be
# mount.rnfs <ipaddr>:<exported-dir> <mount-location> -i -o rdma,port=2050

If you have any issues, please let me know.

Thanks,
Jon


>
> 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
>>
>>
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> --Yossi