[ofa-general] OFED 1.4.1 breaks SLES10 SP2 NFS server ?

[Tom Tucker]

Jeff:

Can you answer Sven's question regarding the level of testing performed 
on your port of NFSRDMA to SLES10SP2?

Thanks,
Tom


Steve Wise wrote:
> If you don't want/need NFSRDMA (especially since it appears to not work 
> well on sles10sp2), you can build/install ofed-1.4.1 with nfsrdma turned 
> off.  Assuming you're installing "all" when you run install.pl, you'll 
> have to run install.pl and choose a custom install and select everything 
> except nfsrdma.
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 
> Steve.
> 
> Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote:
>> Is your system up to date with patches?
>>
>> If so, please open a bug on bugzilla.Novell.com 
>> <http://bugzilla.Novell.com>.
>> Thanks,
>> Sven
>>
>> + 1 (415) 694 2930
>>
>> On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:20, "Ciesielski, Frederic (EMEA HPC&OSLO CC)" 
>> <frederic.ciesielski at hp.com <mailto:frederic.ciesielski at hp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I could see, x86-64 systems running SLES10 SP2 + OFED 1.4.1 
>>> are not valid NFS servers anymore, even without trying to activate 
>>> NFS-RDMA, even without using IB at all for the export.
>>>  
>>> NFS clients see too frequently 'Stale NFS file handle' error messages 
>>> for them to properly read or write anything.
>>>  
>>> This happens using ethernet and IPoIB... and works fine without OFED, 
>>> or when OFED 1.4 is installed instead (which is not what I want).
>>>  
>>> Did anybody test that ?
>>> Any idea about how to get rid of this major side effect ?
>>>  
>>> Thanks.
>>> Fred.
>>>  
>>>  
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