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

[Jon Mason]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:20:58AM +0000, Ciesielski, Frederic (EMEA HPC&OSLO CC) 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 ?

I see it as well when testing over IB, but I did not see it when testing
iWARP before OFED 1.4.1 came out.

I have patches queued to fix it for OFED 1.4.2.

Thanks,
Jon

> Any idea about how to get rid of this major side effect ?
> 
> Thanks.
> Fred.
> 
> 

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