Hi, I have not well followed this thread, so sorry in advance if I'm a little out of topic. Personally I'm using this udev rule and it works well (servers are Ubuntu Trusty): ~# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-ceph.rules ENV{ID_PART_ENTRY_SCHEME}=="gpt", ENV{ID_PART_ENTRY_NAME}=="osd-?*-journal", OWNER="ceph" Indeed, I'm using GPT and all my journal partitions have this partname pattern: /osd-[0-9]+-journal/ If you currently don't use GTP (but msdos partitions), I think you can do the same thing by using _explicit_ "by-id". For instance something like that (not tested!): ENV{DEVTYPE}=="partition", ENV{ID_WWN_WITH_EXTENSION}=="xxxxxxxxxxx", OWNER="ceph" ENV{DEVTYPE}=="partition", ENV{ID_WWN_WITH_EXTENSION}=="yyyyyyyyyyy", OWNER="ceph" # etc. where xxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyyyyyyy, etc. the name of your journal partitions in /dev/disk/by-id/. HTH. ;) -- François Lafont _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com