At 10:41 AM 10/2/2008, Steven Truelove wrote: >Hi, > > I am considering using our existing Infiniband interconnect to >provide high-speed storage access to our compute cluster. It looks like >the two ways to do this are NFS over RDMA and SRP. > > I have found downloads for NFS over RDMA, but it is for an older >kernel, and doesn't appear to be maintained at the moment.
NFS/RDMA is present in the mainline kernel starting with 2.6.25 for the client and 2.6.26 for the server. Just configure it in File Systems->Network Filesystems->NFS etc, the NFS/RDMA options appear whenever the RDMA layer is available. > Similarly, I >have found little about SRP. > > What is the current status of these features? Is anyone currently >maintaining these projects? Are they part of OFED? Do they have >separate mailing lists? NFS/RDMA will also be part of OFED starting with 1.4, but whether that is your best choice depends on what kernel you're planning to run. If you're running RHEL5 and want to stay on it, then OFED1.4 would be your best choice. NFS overall is a very active development area, and NFS/RDMA especially is usually best from the top of the tree in kernel.org. In fact I have a number of client patches almost ready to go for (hopefully) 2.6.28. There are also a large number of server patches already in the 2.6.27 rc's. We have a mailing list for NFS/RDMA support at sourceforge, you can find it from <http://nfs-rdma.sourceforge.net>. Or, simply post to the Linux NFS list at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or to me and Tom Tucker (cc'd, server NFS/RDMA) directly. Tom. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
