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6 rbdmap - map RBD devices at boot time
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14 rbdmap is a shell script that automates rbd map and rbd unmap opera‐
15 tions on one or more RBD (RADOS Block Device) images. While the script
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17 cipal use case is automatic mapping/mounting of RBD images at boot time
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22 The script takes a single argument, which can be either "map" or
23 "unmap". In either case, the script parses a configuration file
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30 IMAGESPEC RBDOPTS
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32 where IMAGESPEC should be specified as POOLNAME/IMAGENAME (the pool
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39 PARAM1=VAL1,PARAM2=VAL2,...,PARAMN=VALN
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41 This will cause the script to issue an rbd map command like the follow‐
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44 rbd map POOLNAME/IMAGENAME --PARAM1 VAL1 --PARAM2 VAL2
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46 (See the rbd manpage for a full list of possible options.) For parame‐
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50 When run as rbdmap map, the script parses the configuration file, and
51 for each RBD image specified attempts to first map the image (using the
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57 rbdmap unmap-all attempts to unmount and subsequently unmap all cur‐
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61 If successful, the rbd map operation maps the image to a /dev/rbdX
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66 In order for mounting/unmounting to succeed, the friendly device name
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69 When writing /etc/fstab entries for RBD images, it's a good idea to
70 specify the "noauto" (or "nofail") mount option. This prevents the init
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76 Example /etc/ceph/rbdmap for three RBD images called "bar1", "bar2" and
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79 foopool/bar1 id=admin,keyring=/etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
80 foopool/bar2 id=admin,keyring=/etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
81 foopool/bar3 id=admin,keyring=/etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring,options='lock_on_read,queue_depth=1024'
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83 Each line in the file contains two strings: the image spec and the
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87 rbd map foopool/bar1 --id admin --keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
88 rbd map foopool/bar2 --id admin --keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
89 rbd map foopool/bar2 --id admin --keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring --options lock_on_read,queue_depth=1024
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91 If the images had XFS filesystems on them, the corresponding /etc/fstab
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98 After creating the images and populating the /etc/ceph/rbdmap file,
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108 rbdmap is part of Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, distributed
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