aoe-stat only sees vblade minor numbers 0-15
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| aoetools (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: aoetools
I have two Ubuntu 10.4.1 LTS servers installed with the aoetools, vblade and vblade-persist packages added to both.
I have set up LVM partitions on both machines that are being exported using vblade-persist, using various major and minor numbers. I'm then using aoetools on each machine to view the vblades on the other one.
What I found interesting was that although I could export partition targets using any minor number (it is reported that one could use between 0 and 255), I found that on the initiator machine, aoe-stat only reports block devices if the minor number is between 0 and 15.
What was strange was that other vblades with minor numbers > 15 (e.g. 16, 19, 20, 99 etc) could be viewed correctly on the initiator machine using aoeping. However aoe-stat refused to acknowledge their existence, even after forcing an aoe-discover.
I was expecting the aoe initiator to be able to view any minor number on the vblade target.
I am using the following packages
aoetools 30-3ubuntu1
vblade 20-1ubuntu1
vblade-persist 0.6-2
on the 2.6.32.27-generic kernel.
| Cladmin (cladmin) wrote | #1 |
update to the below.
I have a separate virtualised instance of OpenFiler v2.3. On the OpenFiler, vblades from the Ubuntu servers with minor numbers 0 up till 254 can be viewed by aoe-stat (but not 255). This is completely different behaviour from the aoe-stat behaviour experienced on the Ubuntu installation.
The OpenFiler 2.3 is based on RedHat with kernel version 2.6.26.
On my Ubuntu 10.4.1LTS machines, the file /sys/module/