On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Daleep Bais <daleep@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi Ilya, > > I had used the below command to create the rbd image > > rbd -p fool create strpimg --image-format 2 --order 22 --size 2048M > --stripe-unit 65536 --stripe-count 3 --image-feature striping --image-shared > > I am confused when you say why I use sysfs instead of rbd cli tool. Well, there is no way to create an image via sysfs, but you can map an image by writing to /sys/bus/rbd/... instead of using "rbd map". You wrote this: > Getting below error when trying to mount using echo --- > > /sys/bus/rbd/add > > write error : invalid arguement which is why I asked if you had used sysfs directly, instead of something like "rbd map strpimg". > > Can you please help me? I dont wish to use qemu or virtmanager. I wish to > use this as block device on client PC You'd have to drop "--stripe-unit 65536 --stripe-count 3" from your "rbd create" for that to work, at least for now. Thanks, Ilya _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com