1 What: /sys/class/rnbd-client
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5 Description: Provide information about RNBD-client.
6 All sysfs files that are not read-only provide the usage information on read:
10 # cat /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/map_device
12 > Usage: echo "sessname=<name of the rtrs session> path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr>
13 > [path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr>] device_path=<full path on remote side>
14 > [access_mode=<ro|rw|migration>] > map_device
16 > addr ::= [ ip:<ipv4> | ip:<ipv6> | gid:<gid> ]
18 What: /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/map_device
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22 Description: Expected format is the following::
24 sessname=<name of the rtrs session>
25 path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr> [path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr> ...]
26 device_path=<full path on remote side>
27 [access_mode=<ro|rw|migration>]
32 accepts a string not bigger than 256 chars, which identifies
33 a given session on the client and on the server.
34 I.e. "clt_hostname-srv_hostname" could be a natural choice.
37 describes a connection between the client and the server by
38 specifying destination and, when required, the source address.
39 The addresses are to be provided in the following format::
49 The single addr is treated as the destination.
50 The connection will be established to this server from any client IP address.
54 path=ip:10.0.0.66,ip:10.0.1.66
56 First addr is the source address and the second is the destination.
58 If multiple "path=" options are specified multiple connection
59 will be established and data will be sent according to
60 the selected multipath policy (see RTRS mp_policy sysfs entry description).
63 Path to the block device on the server side. Path is specified
64 relative to the directory on server side configured in the
65 'dev_search_path' module parameter of the rnbd_server.
66 The rnbd_server prepends the <device_path> received from client
67 with <dev_search_path> and tries to open the
68 <dev_search_path>/<device_path> block device. On success,
69 a /dev/rnbd<N> device file, a /sys/block/rnbd<N>/
70 directory and an entry in /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices
73 If 'dev_search_path' contains '%SESSNAME%', then each session can
74 have different devices namespace, e.g. server was configured with
75 the following parameter "dev_search_path=/run/rnbd-devs/%SESSNAME%",
76 client has this string "sessname=blya device_path=sda", then server
77 will try to open: /run/rnbd-devs/blya/sda.
80 the access_mode parameter specifies if the device is to be
81 mapped as "ro" read-only or "rw" read-write. The server allows
82 a device to be exported in rw mode only once. The "migration"
83 access mode has to be specified if a second mapping in read-write
86 By default "rw" is used.
89 specifies the number of poll-mode queues. If the IO has HIPRI flag,
90 the block-layer will send the IO via the poll-mode queue.
91 For fast network and device the polling is faster than interrupt-base
92 IO handling because it saves time for context switching, switching to
93 another process, handling the interrupt and switching back to the
96 Set -1 if you want to set it as the number of CPUs
97 By default rnbd client creates only irq-mode queues.
99 NOTICE: MUST make a unique session for a device using the poll-mode queues.
103 If the device is already mapped it will fail with EEXIST. If the input
104 has an invalid format it will return EINVAL. If the device path cannot
105 be found on the server, it will fail with ENOENT.
107 Finding device file after mapping
108 ---------------------------------
110 After mapping, the device file can be found by:
111 o The symlink /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices/<device_id>@<session_name>
112 points to /sys/block/<dev-name>. The last part of the symlink destination
113 is the same as the device name. By extracting the last part of the
114 path the path to the device /dev/<dev-name> can be build.
116 * /dev/block/$(cat /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices/<device_id>@<session_name>/dev)
118 How to find the <device_id> of the device is described on the next
121 What: /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices/
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125 Description: For each device mapped on the client a new symbolic link is created as
126 /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices/<device_id>@<session_name>, which points
127 to the block device created by rnbd (/sys/block/rnbd<N>/).
128 The <device_id> of each device is created as follows:
130 - If the 'device_path' provided during mapping contains slashes ("/"),
131 they are replaced by exclamation mark ("!") and used as as the
132 <device_id>. Otherwise, the <device_id> will be the same as the
133 "device_path" provided.