RHEL 5 OpenStack volume enumeration
Issue
It appears that after an OpenStack volume detachment, the device name is not freed. i.e., a volume with device /dev/vdb
is not freed after detachment, and a subsequent volume attachment will take /dev/vdc
instead of /dev/vdb
.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
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