FBSD to FBSD NFS Mounts over IB.
Janky Jay, III
jankyj at unfs.us
Thu May 15 15:00:25 UTC 2014
Hello All,
We're recently been poking around with IB support in FBSD because we
would really like to use ZFS for cluster storage. We're currently
testing between two FBSD (10.0-R-p2) systems and two Linux (CentOS 6.5
2.6.32) systems and we're running into something a little strange...
I have set up one of the FBSD systems to run OpenSM and also be an NFS
server which all the systems seem to be able to mount over the IB
devices without any issue at all. Small reads and writes to and from the
NFS server to all the other nodes also seems to work without any issue.
However, if I try to dump large amounts of data using "dd" (in order to
test speeds and stability), the FBSD NFS client craps out immediately. I
just get the following message(s) over and over:
newnfs server 10.11.1.1:/data: not responding
newnfs server 10.11.1.1:/data: not responding
newnfs server 10.11.1.1:/data: not responding
newnfs server 10.11.1.1:/data: not responding
newnfs server 10.11.1.1:/data: not responding
newnfs server 10.11.1.1:/data: not responding
Strangely enough, though, the Linux nodes doesn't seem to have a
problem at all. I'm unsure if anyone else has seen this problem or if
it's even an IB issue at all (could be an NFS issue). There just doesn't
seem to be much (if any) documentation about NFS over IB on FBSD any so
I'm just curious if someone here may be able to point me in the right
direction. The output of "ibstat" for both FBSD nodes is as follows:
node1 (NFS Server)
CA 'mlx4_0'
CA type: MT26428
Number of ports: 1
Firmware version: 2.9.1000
Hardware version: b0
Node GUID: 0x002590ffff16a3cc
System image GUID: 0x002590ffff16a3cf
Port 1:
State: Active
Physical state: LinkUp
Rate: 40
Base lid: 1
LMC: 0
SM lid: 1
Capability mask: 0x0251086a
Port GUID: 0x002590ffff16a3cd
node2 (NFS Client)
CA 'mlx4_0'
CA type: MT26428
Number of ports: 1
Firmware version: 2.9.1000
Hardware version: b0
Node GUID: 0x002590ffff16b3a0
System image GUID: 0x002590ffff16b3a3
Port 1:
State: Active
Physical state: LinkUp
Rate: 40
Base lid: 3
LMC: 0
SM lid: 1
Capability mask: 0x02510868
Port GUID: 0x002590ffff16b3a1
If anyone has any ideas as to what I can try, it would be greatly
appreciated!
Regards,
Janky Jay, III
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