[ewg] [PATCH] ofed docs: update NFS docs

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Nov 3 23:17:51 PST 2009


Jon Mason wrote:
> Add a comment describing the "-i" flag, when it is needed and why.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Jon Mason <jon at opengridcomputing.com>
> 
> diff --git a/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt b/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
> index 5e6a2f2..d9e99f1 100644
> --- a/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
> +++ b/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
> @@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ NFS/RDMA Setup
>  
>      $ mount.rnfs <IPoIB-server-name-or-address>:/<export> /mnt -o proto=rdma,port=20049 
>  
> +    NOTE: For kernels < 2.6.23, the "-i" flag must be passed into mount.rnfs.
> +    This option allows the mount command to ignore the kernel version check.  If
> +    not disabled, the check will prevent passing arguments to the kernel and not
> +    allow the updated version of NFS to accept the "rdma" NFS option.
> +
>      To verify that the mount is using RDMA, run "cat /proc/mounts" and check
>      the "proto" field for the given mount.
>  

Applied,

Regards,
Vladimir



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