Re: Backporting stability fixes for ceph-disk

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On 04/02/2016 00:56, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> Hi Loic,
> 
> Thanks for explaining the differences between Hammer's disk
> activations and Jewel's. I think I understand the problem better now.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Loic Dachary <ldachary@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The conservative approach to the problem would be to cherry-pick what
>> we can (
>> https://github.com/dachary/ceph/commit/9dce05a8cdfc564c5162885bbb67a04ad7b95c5a
>> for instance ) and document known side effects of ceph-disk
>> instability so people know it's an annoyance but nothing destructive
>> or blocking. In the worst case scenario, deactivating the udev rules
>> and running ceph-disk prepare + ceph-disk activate manually or by
>> writing a script that does things sequentially is a viable workaround.
> 
> This approach (documentation) sounds reasonable to me, and it makes
> sense that the larger re-architecture of running "ceph-disk activate"
> outside udev is only something that can happen in a major release
> boundary (in this case Infernalis / Jewel). Once we're happy that the
> docs for manually recovering are solid, we can possibly address it
> with a script as you suggest.

The script really is just adding a call to ceph-disk activate-all at boot time somewhere (/etc/rc.local maybe ?).

> If we can document the worst case scenario and what to do when
> ceph-disk-in-udev fails, that would really improve the user
> experience.
> 
> What's the procedure for deactivating the Hammer udev rules, for example?

rm /lib/udev/rules.d/*ceph*
udevadm control --reload # maybe superfluous

> 
> - Ken
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