Am 02.11.2012 12:22, schrieb Sage Weil: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Danny Al-Gaaf wrote: [...] >> Any news on this? We have seen the same issues here. >> >> IMO the RBD code should to something similar to some other block drivers: >> >> 1) reserve a major block number for RBD in general (or use the number >> returned from the register_blkdev call, if there is no number we can >> reserve in general for RBD, see [1]) >> >> 2) Use this major number for all RBDs on this machine and handle each >> new RBD via different minor numbers. >> >> If we can agree on this I would take a look into it and send a patch. > > We should probably do what SCSI does, where the minor for each device > jumps by 16 to leave room for partitions. That's exactly what I would propose. I wasn't sure if we really need to leave the room for the partitions, since I'm not sure if they really need to have contiguous numbers, but I guess there are some tools which expect it. > There was a thread on this a couple of weeks ago that mmy slow internet is > preventing me from finding... :) My internet connection isn't that slow here in Amsterdam ;-) ... but I couldn't find another thread about this topic. Do you remember if someone already is working on this? Danny -- 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
