From: Mark Nelson <mark.nelson@inktank.com>
To: Mike Dawson <mike.dawson@cloudapt.com>
Cc: "ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Add Metavariable $imagename
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:07:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52274CA1.2040801@inktank.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522747D0.6050906@cloudapt.com>
On 09/04/2013 09:46 AM, Mike Dawson wrote:
> There are currently a few metavariables available for use in ceph.conf:
> http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/configuration/ceph-conf/#metavariables
>
> In addition to those listed in that document, $pid was added in Bobtail.
> That allows me to get RBD admin sockets for libvirt/qemu guests by
> specifying
>
> [client]
> admin socket = /var/run/ceph/rbd-$pid.asok
>
> in /etc/ceph/ceph.conf. That works well for VMs with a single volume,
> but it does not work for VMs with multiple volumes. With multiple
> volumes, the admin only lists data on the last volume specified, leaving
> me unable to monitor stats on any volumes other than the last.
>
> I imagine you could specify a unique admin socket for each volume on the
> command-line that libvirt uses to spawn qemu, but that seems like a pain.
>
> Is it possible instead to add a metavariable that would expand to the
> image name? This way, my ceph.conf would look like
>
>
> [client]
> admin socket = /var/run/ceph/$imagename.asok
>
> and I would end up with admin sockets like:
>
> /var/run/ceph/rbd-volume-0025b693-6230-443e-ad6a-3aa43efdd648.asok
> /var/run/ceph/rbd-volume-009228f3-b8d7-4f3c-8458-0cdbd4809dc6.asok
>
> # rbd -p volumes ls
> volume-0025b693-6230-443e-ad6a-3aa43efdd648
> volume-009228f3-b8d7-4f3c-8458-0cdbd4809dc6
>
> I'd be happy to provide a patch if someone could give me sufficient
> guidance on how/where to add this functionality.
>
Created a feature request in the tracker for this:
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/6228
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-04 14:46 Add Metavariable $imagename Mike Dawson
2013-09-04 15:07 ` Mark Nelson [this message]
2013-09-04 15:46 ` Mike Dawson
2013-09-04 16:22 ` Sage Weil
2013-09-05 6:48 ` Josh Durgin
2013-09-05 14:59 ` Sage Weil
2013-09-05 18:32 ` Josh Durgin
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