User`s guide

Chapter IV. iWARP (RDMA)

iv. Start OFED installation

[root@host]#./install.py –all

4.3.2. Starting NFS-RDMA

Server-side settings

Follow the steps mentioned below to set up an NFS-RDMA server.

i. Make entry in /etc/exports file for the directories you need to export using NFS-RDMA on

server as:

/share/rdma *(fsid=0,async,insecure,no_root_squash)

/share/rdma1 *(fsid=1,async,insecure,no_root_squash)

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ii. Load the iwarp modules and make sure peer2peer is set to 1.

iii. Load xprtrdma and svcrdma modules as:

[root@host]# modprobe xprtrdma

[root@host]# modprobe svcrdma

iv. Start the nfs service as:

[root@host]# service nfs start

All services in NFS should start without errors.

v. Now we need to edit the file portlist in the path /proc/fs/nfsd/

vi. Include the rdma port 2050 into this file as:

[root@host]# echo rdma 2050 > /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist