***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Infinband and DRBD

[Dotan Barak]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Robert Dunkley <Robert at saq.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it answers my question. I'm curious to know IPOIB-CM would offer
> better performance but can't find much information on the difference
> between IPOIB and IPOIB-CM on Google. Does anyone have a link or a
> little bit of info on the differences?
(sorry but i don't have the numbers for you)

>
> From the little bit of info I can find it seems Centos 5.2 uses some
> sort of OFED 1.3 but I'm not entirely sure.
I think that CentOS 5.2 contains OFED 1.3. In the OpenFabrics web site you
can download OFED 1.3.1 (which is a little bit better than 1.3).
BUT I think that OFED 1.3 is good enough for your needs ...

Dotan
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dotan Barak [mailto:dotanba at gmail.com]
> Sent: 13 July 2008 07:25
> To: Robert Dunkley
> Cc: general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Infinband and DRBD
>
> I don't know which OFED version is installed in the Distribution
> version that you are using,
> but i think (as a general rule, at least at this stage): users should
> install the latest OFED
> release if this version number is higher than the one that originally
> being installed with
> your distribution.
>
> I hope that i answered your answer ...
> Dotan
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Robert Dunkley <Robert at saq.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> Apologies if this question is a bit simple but if anyone has any
> thoughts
>> I'd appreciated them.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is my first Infiniband experiment. I need to clone disk
> partitions
>> between Linux boxes, theoretically 400-500Mbytes/second writes could
> be seen
>> at peak (Total for all partitions) but loading will mostly be smallish
>> random writes. I was thinking of just using Centos with the built-in
> IPOIB
>> support and DRBD  but does anyone have any better suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
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