Re: [Testbed-admins] Freebsd MFS with NFE support

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

I just put out:

    www.emulab.net/downloads/tftpboot-100128.tar.gz

which has freebsd 7.2 versions.  But these are really just the older MFS
with 7.2 kernels, which sounds like basically just what you did.  We may
need to rebuild the client side as well.  Try these MFSes and let me know.

And no, there is no documentation on building new MFSes.  It is basically
take the old one, copy in new versions of all programs that are already
there.  It is ugly.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:57:32AM -0800, Harley S Green wrote:
> Hello,
> We have several nodes in our testbed that have the NFE NICs which the 
> latest publicly available MFS freebsd images do not support.
> 
> When I created a new kernel for the MFS image I was able to get the 
> freebsd MFS image to load completely on those nodes. However, the 
> imagezip/imageunzip applications don't work properly on the new image I 
> made (both on the nodes with the NFE NICs and on other nodes that work 
> fine with the original freebsd MFS).
> The imagezip process runs to completion but when I try to run imageunzip 
> on any image created on the new MFS I get an immediate "inflate error=-3". 
> It is able to inflate images that were created already on the original 
> freebsd MFS just fine though.
> I thought it might be a driver problem or checksum offloading issue so I 
> disabled checksum offloading on the nodes with the NFE NICs and still same 
> problem.
> I then tried the new image on other pc node types that were known to work 
> with the original freebsd MFS with the same error results.
> 
> I just downloaded the latest tftpboot images and the freebsd62 MFS image 
> there does not have support for the NFE NICs.
> 
> How difficult and what would the process be to create a new freebsd MFS 
> based on at least the 7-RELEASE version which includes NFE support by 
> default?
> 
> Otherwise, is there documentation floating around about the process of 
> creating new MFS images based on a new Freebsd release?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Harley Green
> Network Systems Department
> The Aerospace Corporation
> (310) 336-0772
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