On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Sebastien Han <seb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Which Kernel are you running on? >> These days, the theoretical limit is 65536 AFAIK. >> >> Ilya would know the kernel needed for that. > > 3.14 or later, and, if you are loading your kernel modules by hand or > have your distro load them for you during boot, you'll need to make > sure rbd.ko is loaded with single_major=T. (rbd cli tool loads rbd.ko > with single_major=T but won't reload if the module is already loaded.) Sorry, I meant single_major=Y (or =1) - I always mix these up. And yes, 248 devices is about is high as you can go on pre-3.14 or on post-3.14 with single_major=N. Thanks, Ilya _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com