On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Fred Yang wrote: > ceph-disk does not support journal device using path /dev/disk/by-path > currently since the the device name has colon, this has been reported > over 1 year ago: > > http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/5283 > > But it was set to "Won't fix" few months ago, can particular reason? > >From user's perspective, after journal disk got replaced, the device > name can shift to be different as original /dev/sdX, instead of > relinking the journal device in OSD after disk replace, it's much > easier to just reference H/W path like /dev/disk/by-path. I think it was Won't Fix for lack of a vocal user or reasonable use-case for wanting it. IIRC the issue is just that it breaks the ceph-deploy syntax of host:dev[:journaldev]. Perhaps it is enough to just choose an alternate separator character (one that won't appear in a device path)... sage -- 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