What: /sys/class/rnbd-client Date: Feb 2020 KernelVersion: 5.7 Contact: Jack Wang Danil Kipnis Description: Provide information about RNBD-client. All sysfs files that are not read-only provide the usage information on read: Example:: # cat /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/map_device > Usage: echo "sessname= path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr> > [path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr>] device_path= > [access_mode=] > map_device > > addr ::= [ ip: | ip: | gid: ] What: /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/map_device Date: Feb 2020 KernelVersion: 5.7 Contact: Jack Wang Danil Kipnis Description: Expected format is the following:: sessname= path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr> [path=<[srcaddr,]dstaddr> ...] device_path= [access_mode=] Where: sessname: accepts a string not bigger than 256 chars, which identifies a given session on the client and on the server. I.e. "clt_hostname-srv_hostname" could be a natural choice. path: describes a connection between the client and the server by specifying destination and, when required, the source address. The addresses are to be provided in the following format:: ip: ip: gid: for example:: path=ip:10.0.0.66 The single addr is treated as the destination. The connection will be established to this server from any client IP address. :: path=ip:10.0.0.66,ip:10.0.1.66 First addr is the source address and the second is the destination. If multiple "path=" options are specified multiple connection will be established and data will be sent according to the selected multipath policy (see RTRS mp_policy sysfs entry description). device_path: Path to the block device on the server side. Path is specified relative to the directory on server side configured in the 'dev_search_path' module parameter of the rnbd_server. The rnbd_server prepends the received from client with and tries to open the / block device. On success, a /dev/rnbd device file, a /sys/block/rnbd_client/rnbd/ directory and an entry in /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices will be created. If 'dev_search_path' contains '%SESSNAME%', then each session can have different devices namespace, e.g. server was configured with the following parameter "dev_search_path=/run/rnbd-devs/%SESSNAME%", client has this string "sessname=blya device_path=sda", then server will try to open: /run/rnbd-devs/blya/sda. access_mode: the access_mode parameter specifies if the device is to be mapped as "ro" read-only or "rw" read-write. The server allows a device to be exported in rw mode only once. The "migration" access mode has to be specified if a second mapping in read-write mode is desired. By default "rw" is used. Exit Codes: If the device is already mapped it will fail with EEXIST. If the input has an invalid format it will return EINVAL. If the device path cannot be found on the server, it will fail with ENOENT. Finding device file after mapping --------------------------------- After mapping, the device file can be found by: o The symlink /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices/ points to /sys/block/. The last part of the symlink destination is the same as the device name. By extracting the last part of the path the path to the device /dev/ can be build. * /dev/block/$(cat /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices//dev) How to find the of the device is described on the next section. What: /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices/ Date: Feb 2020 KernelVersion: 5.7 Contact: Jack Wang Danil Kipnis Description: For each device mapped on the client a new symbolic link is created as /sys/class/rnbd-client/ctl/devices/, which points to the block device created by rnbd (/sys/block/rnbd/). The of each device is created as follows: - If the 'device_path' provided during mapping contains slashes ("/"), they are replaced by exclamation mark ("!") and used as as the . Otherwise, the will be the same as the "device_path" provided.