Ceph: Hot Swappable disks erroneously excluded by ceph-volume.
Issue
Hot Swappable disks erroneously excluded by ceph-volume.
The ceph-volume command excludes Hot Swappable disks from use as a Ceph OSD.
Output from lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 446.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 600M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 445G 0 part
├─rhel-root 253:0 0 70G 0 lvm /
├─rhel-swap 253:1 0 4G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─rhel-home 253:2 0 371G 0 lvm /home
sdb 8:16 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdc 8:32 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdd 8:48 1 5.5T 0 disk
sde 8:64 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdf 8:80 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdg 8:96 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdh 8:112 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdi 8:128 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdj 8:144 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdk 8:160 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdl 8:176 1 5.5T 0 disk
sdm 8:192 1 5.5T 0 disk
^ '1' indicates removable as these disks are in an enclosure (tray) which supports the hot swapping of disks.
The udevadm command can also be used:
# udevadm info /dev/sdm | grep removable
ATTR{removable}=="1"
Environment
Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS) 6.x
Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS) 7.x
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