On 10/17/2012 09:15 PM, Christian Huang wrote: > Hi, > what is the maximum number of rbd devices that can be mapped on a > single host? > we recently did a test to mount a large number of rbd devices and > hit a wall around 230 > with the following message That sounds about right. We were just discussing this earlier this week. It's limited at the moment by the number of major device numbers available on the system, and I think you found that limit. We would obviously like to have a solution for this but we've only just started considering options. -Alex > with 230 rbd devices already mapped, the next one yielded this. > Console output > wistor@wistor-002:~$ sudo rbd map test299 > add failed: (16) Device or resource busy > > dmesg > [77962.346749] register_blkdev: failed to get major for rbd229 > > Chris. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html