[ofa-general] Status of NFS-RDMA ?

[Tziporet Koren]

James Lentini wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Pawel Dziekonski wrote:
>
>   
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm deploying a new cluster with infiniband and I would like to use
>> NFS-RDMA over IB. I'm asking about it here because it is hardly
>> possible to find up to date info about NFS-RDMA. Page
>> http://nfs-rdma.sourceforge.net/Documents/README points to Tom
>> Tucker's linux kernel git tree but provided git link is dead.
>>     
>
> The name of Tom's tree changed last Wednesday. I'll update the docs 
> with the new address.
>
> The new URL is:
>
> git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/tomtucker/xprt-switch-2.6.git
>
>   
>> My hardware will be Mellanox HBAa and Flextronics switch. I already
>> know that NFS-RDMA client is in official kernel. What about server?
>> Should I use OFED 1.2 or try 1.3? Should I use infiniband drivers from
>> kernel or OFED?
>>     
>
>   

Note that NFS-RDMA is not part of OFED now (will be only in 1.4) however 
Tom prepared backport patches that enable it to work on distros with 
OFED 1.2
You can look at http://www.mellanox.com/products/nfs_rdma_sdk.php for 
more info on this

Tziporet