Ceph Journal Device Ownership

Some devices struggle with persistent ownership due to the driver.   I have some OCZ ssd used for journal that are affected by this.

So I’ve created a udev rule to assign them to the proper user during boot.

Add this to /etc/udev/rules.d/89-ceph-journal.rules

KERNEL=="oczpcie*?" SUBSYSTEM=="block" OWNER="ceph" GROUP="disk" MODE="0660"

Then retrigger it to test

udevadm trigger --action=add
ls -lh /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd*
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 0 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 1 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd1
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 4 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd4
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 5 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd5
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 6 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd6
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 7 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd7
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 8 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd8
brw-rw---- 1 ceph disk 251, 9 Jul 14 13:01 /dev/oczpcie_3_0_ssd9

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