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

Jon Mason jon at opengridcomputing.com
Wed Nov 4 08:19:02 PST 2009


Add a comment describing why the user must start rpc.statd on SLES10.

Signed-Off-By: Jon Mason <jon at opengridcomputing.com>

diff --git a/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt b/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
index d9e99f1..a4369e4 100644
--- a/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
+++ b/nfs-rdma.release-notes.txt
@@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ NFS/RDMA Setup
 
     $ echo rdma 20049 > /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist
 
+    NOTE for SLES10 servers: The nfs start scripts on most distro's start
+    rpc.statd by default.  However, the in-kernel lockd that was in SLES10 has
+    been removed in the new kernels.  Since OFED is back-porting the new code to
+    the older distro's, there is no in-kernel lockd in SLES10 and the SLES10
+    nfsserver scripts do not know the need to start it.  Therefore, the user
+    MUST start rpc.statd.
+
   - On the client system
 
     Load the RDMA client module:



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