I wanted to know, does the OSD numbering half to be sequential and what is the highest usable number (2^16 or 2^32)? The reason is, I would like to use a numbering convention that reflects the cluster number (assuming I will have more than one down the road; test, dev, prod), the host and disk used by a given OSD. So, for example: osd.CHHHDD where: C Cluster number 1-9 HHH Host number IE: ceph001, ceph002, ... DD Disk number on a given host Ex: 00 = /dev/sda or something like this. If the highest number usable is 65534 or near that (2^16) then maybe I could use format CHHDD or CHHHD where I could have clusters 1-5. The up side to this is I quickly know where osd.200503 is. It's on cluster 2 host ceph005 and the third disk. Also, if I add a new disk on a middle host, it doesn’t scatter the numbering to where I don't easily know were an OSD is. I know I can always look this up but having it as part of the OSD number makes life easier. :) Also, it might seem silly to have the first digit as a cluster number but I think we probable can't pad the number with zeros so using an initial digit of 1-9 cleans this up so I might as well use it to identify the cluster. This numbering system is not important for the monitors or metadata but could help with the OSDs. -Glen _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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