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

[Jeff Becker]

Tom Tucker wrote:
> Jeff:
>
> Can you answer Sven's question regarding the level of testing performed 
> on your port of NFSRDMA to SLES10SP2?
>   

I tested NFSRDMA on SLES10SP2 server and client (both x86-64).
Connectathon passed. Thanks

-jeff

> 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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