[ewg] NFS/RDMA question

[RSD@SFI]

Hi Check,

You are correct that OFED 4.x does not support any 6.x RHEL based distros
(see attached readme).

I will bring up this topic in tomorrow's EWG meeting.

Thanks

Rupert

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lever [mailto:chuck.lever at oracle.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 11:29 AM
To: RSD at SFI <rsdance at soft-forge.com>
Cc: Jeff Becker <jeffrey.c.becker at nasa.gov>; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ewg] NFS/RDMA question

Thanks Rupert.

I'm thinking out loud here, but my interest is with the many many
deployments that are forced to remain on EL6-based distributions
(Scientific, CentOS) due to application certification constraints.
This includes many in the HPC community, and those who are doing chip CAD,
for example.

OFED / MOFED seems to be the only way to deliver working NFS/RDMA in that
class of environment, as it replaces the NFS/RDMA code that is in Red Hat's
EL6 kernel with newer 3.18 code.

As I understand it, OFED 4 is not supported on EL6-based systems.


> On Aug 3, 2017, at 5:57 PM, RSD at SFI <rsdance at soft-forge.com> wrote:
> 
> OFED Bugzilla is located here: http://bugs.openfabrics.org/
> 
> We are now working on OFED 4.8-1 and hope to quickly move to OFED 4.14 so
I think it is unlikely that the EWG would spin a new release for OFED 3.18
but we would be glad to know of the issue so we can resolve it if it still
exist in OFED 4.8-1.
> 
> Rupert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ewg [mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Jeff 
> Becker
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 5:44 PM
> To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [ewg] NFS/RDMA question
> 
> I think, e.g., 3.18.3 is still supported - forwarding to EWG to make sure.
> 
> On 08/03/2017 01:15 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> I had one more question about OFED 3.x. Is it still "supported" -- 
>> meaning, if an admin applies OFED 3 to, say, CentOS 6, and encounters 
>> a bug, who does she contact for help?
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Chuck Lever
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Chuck Lever




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