Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

[Gergely CZUCZY]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:55:04 -0400
John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Friday, June 29, 2012 5:50:05 am Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm mostly using freebsd, but there are a few cases where it's
> > impossible to do, and because of these, i'm not using fbsd there.
> > 
> > These reasons are mostly are:
> >  - Lack of a working infiniband/OFED stack, with all its utils,
> >    mellanox connectX3 drivers, RDMA, iscsi-over-RDMA, nfs-over-RDMA,
> >    and such things.
> 
> FYI, OFED is present in 9.0 and later including mellanox drivers.
> RDMA should be present, but I've no idea about iscsi-over-RDMA or
> nfs-over-RDMA.

Agreed, it's present. However, it's not in a functional state. Half of
the toolkit is missing, and we couldn't get out of the system any
better than icmp responses. any other means of communication failed to
work. Yup, present, but not functional :)