OFED Support

[flyingllama87]

Hi,

I am hoping NAS4Free can have OFED compiled into it as standard. Infiniband hardware is cheap and high performance (~$100 for 2 cards and cable) - perfect for the nerd at home.

I was able to get the kernel-space OFED stuff working (drivers etc.) but not the user space tools. Other forum members have experienced the same. I guess the nas4free build script doens't pick up changes to /etc/src... which makes sense.

If I get sometime I'll give it another ago and provide more details.

Instructions are as follows:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand

Forum members experimenting (so there is demand):
viewtopic.php?f=58&t=2538

Thanks for your time!

Regards,

Morgan

[jasch]

a big + from mysite, would also love to see this in.
MFG Alex

[zima0001]

+1, "we ALL need more speed".

If only this is need to be done, for basic support, why not.
https://community.mellanox.com/thread/1195#3506

[apollo567]

Hello,

may I ask please, is 10 GBit Ethernet not enough for the speed needs a NAS (with Hard Disks) can realisticly deliver ?

Regards
apollo