[ofa-general] question about partitioning IB networks

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 09:17 Thu 03 Sep     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >  Also it says the default partition will be created “unconditionally even
> > when partition configuration file does not exist or cannot be accessed.”
> >  Will it also be created if the partition configuration file exists but does
> > not have a default partition defined?
> >
> No.

AFAIR OpenSM will create the default partition even before partitions
config file parsing, when the file exists it will be:

Default=0x7fff: ALL=limited, SELF=full;

(no IPoIB there). And this can be overwritten by configuration.

Sasha