Chapter 8. The rbd kernel module As a storage administrator, you can access Ceph block devices through the rbd kernel module. You can map and unmap a block device, and displaying those mappings. Also, you can get a list of images through the rbd kernel module. Important Kernel clients on Linux distributions other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are permitted but not supported. If issues are found in the storage cluster when using these kernel clients, Red Hat will address them, but if the root cause is found to be on the kernel client side, the issue will have to be addressed by the software vendor. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. 8.1. Create a Ceph Block Device and use it from a Linux kernel module client As a storage administrator, you can create a Ceph Block Device for a Linux kernel module client in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Dashboard. As a system administrator, you can map that block device on a Linux client, and partition, format, and mount it, using the command line. After this, you can read and write files to it. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. A Red Hat Enterprise Linux client. 8.1.1. Creating a Ceph block device for a Linux kernel module client using dashboard You can create a Ceph block device specifically for a Linux kernel module client using the dashboard web interface by enabling only the features it supports. Kernel module client supports features like Deep flatten, Layering, Exclusive lock, Object map, and Fast diff. Object map, Fast diff, and Deep flatten features require Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 and later. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. A replicated RBD pool created and enabled. Procedure From the Block drop-down menu, select Images . Click Create . In the Create RBD window, enter a image name, select the RBD enabled pool, select the supported features: Click Create RBD . Verification You will get a notification that the image is created successfully. Additional Resources For more information, see Map and mount a Ceph Block Device on Linux using the command line in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Block Device Guide . For more information, see the Red Hat Ceph Storage Dashboard Guide . 8.1.2. Map and mount a Ceph Block Device on Linux using the command line You can map a Ceph Block Device from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux client using the Linux rbd kernel module. After mapping it, you can partition, format, and mount it, so you can write files to it. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. A Ceph block device for a Linux kernel module client using the dashboard is created. A Red Hat Enterprise Linux client. Procedure On the Red Hat Enterprise Linux client node, enable the Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 Tools repository: Install the ceph-common RPM package: Copy the Ceph configuration file from a Monitor node to the Client node: Syntax Example Copy the key file from a Monitor node to the Client node: Syntax Example Map the image: Syntax Example Create a partition table on the block device: Syntax Example Create a partition for an XFS file system: Syntax Example Format the partition: Syntax Example Create a directory to mount the new file system on: Syntax Example Mount the file system: Syntax Example Verify that the file system is mounted and showing the correct size: Syntax Example Additional Resources For more information, see Creating a Ceph Block Device for a Linux kernel module client using Dashboard . For more information, see Managing file systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. For more information, see Storage Administration Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 8.2. Mapping a block device Use rbd to map an image name to a kernel module. You must specify the image name, the pool name and the user name. rbd will load the RBD kernel module if it is not already loaded. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Root-level access to the node. Procedure Return a list of the images: Example Following are the two options to map the image: Map an image name to a kernel module: Syntax Example Specify a secret when using cephx authentication by either the keyring or a file containing the secret: Syntax or 8.3. Displaying mapped block devices You can display which block device images are mapped to the kernel module with the rbd command. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Root-level access to the node. Procedure Display the mapped block devices: 8.4. Unmapping a block device You can unmap a block device image with the rbd command, by using the unmap option and providing the device name. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Root-level access to the node. An image that is mapped. Procedure Get the specification of the device. Example Unmap the block device image: Syntax Example 8.5. Segregating images within isolated namespaces within the same pool When using Ceph Block Devices directly without a higher-level system, such as OpenStack or OpenShift Container Storage, it was not possible to restrict user access to specific block device images. When combined with CephX capabilities, users can be restricted to specific pool namespaces to restrict access to the images. You can use RADOS namespaces, a new level of identity to identify an object, to provide isolation between rados clients within a pool. For example, a client can only have full permissions on a namespace specific to them. This makes using a different RADOS client for each tenant feasible, which is particularly useful for a block device where many different tenants are accessing their own block device images. You can segregate block device images within isolated namespaces within the same pool. Prerequisites A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Upgrade all the kernels to 4x and to librbd and librados on all clients. Root-level access to the monitor and client nodes. Procedure Create an rbd pool: Syntax Example Associate the rbd pool with the RBD application: Syntax Example Initialize the pool with the RBD application: Syntax Example Create two namespaces: Syntax Example Provide access to the namespaces for two users: Syntax Example Get the key of the clients: Syntax Example Create the block device images and use the pre-defined namespace within a pool: Syntax Example Optional: Get the details of the namespace and the associated image: Syntax Example Copy the Ceph configuration file from the Ceph Monitor node to the client node: Example Copy the admin keyring from the Ceph Monitor node to the client node: Syntax Example Copy the keyrings of the users from the Ceph Monitor node to the client node: Syntax Example Map the block device image: Syntax Example This does not allow access to users in the other namespaces in the same pool. Example Verify the device: Example

Commands:
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhceph-6-tools-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
dnf install ceph-common
scp root@ MONITOR_NODE :/etc/ceph/ceph.conf /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
scp root@cluster1-node2:/etc/ceph/ceph.conf /etc/ceph/ceph.conf root@192.168.0.32's password: ceph.conf 100% 497 724.9KB/s 00:00
scp root@ MONITOR_NODE :/etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
scp root@cluster1-node2:/etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring root@192.168.0.32's password: ceph.client.admin.keyring 100% 151 265.0KB/s 00:00
rbd map --pool POOL_NAME IMAGE_NAME --id admin
rbd map --pool block-device-pool image1 --id admin /dev/rbd0
parted /dev/ MAPPED_BLOCK_DEVICE mklabel msdos
parted /dev/rbd0 mklabel msdos Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
parted /dev/ MAPPED_BLOCK_DEVICE mkpart primary xfs 0% 100%
parted /dev/rbd0 mkpart primary xfs 0% 100% Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
mkfs.xfs /dev/ MAPPED_BLOCK_DEVICE_WITH_PARTITION_NUMBER
mkfs.xfs /dev/rbd0p1 meta-data=/dev/rbd0p1 isize=512 agcount=16, agsize=163824 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1 = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0 = reflink=1 data = bsize=4096 blocks=2621184, imaxpct=25 = sunit=16 swidth=16 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0, ftype=1 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=16 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
mkdir PATH_TO_DIRECTORY
mkdir /mnt/ceph
mount /dev/ MAPPED_BLOCK_DEVICE_WITH_PARTITION_NUMBER PATH_TO_DIRECTORY
mount /dev/rbd0p1 /mnt/ceph/
df -h PATH_TO_DIRECTORY
df -h /mnt/ceph/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/rbd0p1 10G 105M 9.9G 2% /mnt/ceph
rbd list
rbd device map POOL_NAME / IMAGE_NAME --id USER_NAME
rbd device map rbd/myimage --id admin
rbd device map POOL_NAME / IMAGE_NAME --id USER_NAME --keyring PATH_TO_KEYRING
rbd device map POOL_NAME / IMAGE_NAME --id USER_NAME --keyfile PATH_TO_FILE
rbd device list
rbd device list
rbd device unmap /dev/rbd/ POOL_NAME / IMAGE_NAME
rbd device unmap /dev/rbd/pool1/image1
ceph osd pool create POOL_NAME PG_NUM
ceph osd pool create mypool 100 pool 'mypool' created
ceph osd pool application enable POOL_NAME rbd
ceph osd pool application enable mypool rbd enabled application 'rbd' on pool 'mypool'
rbd pool init -p POOL_NAME
rbd pool init -p mypool
rbd namespace create --namespace NAMESPACE
rbd namespace create --namespace namespace1 rbd namespace create --namespace namespace2 rbd namespace ls --format=json [{"name":"namespace2"},{"name":"namespace1"}]
ceph auth get-or-create client. USER_NAME mon 'profile rbd' osd 'profile rbd pool=rbd namespace= NAMESPACE ' -o /etc/ceph/client. USER_NAME .keyring
ceph auth get-or-create client.testuser mon 'profile rbd' osd 'profile rbd pool=rbd namespace=namespace1' -o /etc/ceph/client.testuser.keyring ceph auth get-or-create client.newuser mon 'profile rbd' osd 'profile rbd pool=rbd namespace=namespace2' -o /etc/ceph/client.newuser.keyring
ceph auth get client. USER_NAME
ceph auth get client.testuser [client.testuser] key = AQDMp61hBf5UKRAAgjQ2In0Z3uwAase7mrlKnQ== caps mon = "profile rbd" caps osd = "profile rbd pool=rbd namespace=namespace1" exported keyring for client.testuser ceph auth get client.newuser [client.newuser] key = AQDfp61hVfLFHRAA7D80ogmZl80ROY+AUG4A+Q== caps mon = "profile rbd" caps osd = "profile rbd pool=rbd namespace=namespace2" exported keyring for client.newuser
rbd create --namespace NAMESPACE IMAGE_NAME --size SIZE_IN_GB
rbd create --namespace namespace1 image01 --size 1G rbd create --namespace namespace2 image02 --size 1G
rbd --namespace NAMESPACE ls --long
rbd --namespace namespace1 ls --long NAME SIZE PARENT FMT PROT LOCK image01 1 GiB 2 rbd --namespace namespace2 ls --long NAME SIZE PARENT FMT PROT LOCK image02 1 GiB 2
scp /etc/ceph/ceph.conf root@ CLIENT_NODE :/etc/ceph/
scp /etc/ceph/ceph.conf root@host02:/etc/ceph/ root@host02's password: ceph.conf 100% 497 724.9KB/s 00:00
scp /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring root@ CLIENT_NODE :/etc/ceph
scp /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring root@host02:/etc/ceph/ root@host02's password: ceph.client.admin.keyring 100% 151 265.0KB/s 00:00
scp /etc/ceph/ceph.client. USER_NAME .keyring root@ CLIENT_NODE :/etc/ceph/
scp /etc/ceph/client.newuser.keyring root@host02:/etc/ceph/ scp /etc/ceph/client.testuser.keyring root@host02:/etc/ceph/
rbd map --name NAMESPACE IMAGE_NAME -n client. USER_NAME --keyring /etc/ceph/client. USER_NAME .keyring
rbd map --namespace namespace1 image01 -n client.testuser --keyring=/etc/ceph/client.testuser.keyring /dev/rbd0 rbd map --namespace namespace2 image02 -n client.newuser --keyring=/etc/ceph/client.newuser.keyring /dev/rbd1
rbd map --namespace namespace2 image02 -n client.testuser --keyring=/etc/ceph/client.testuser.keyring rbd: warning: image already mapped as /dev/rbd1 rbd: sysfs write failed rbd: error asserting namespace: (1) Operation not permitted In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try "dmesg | tail". 2021-12-06 02:49:08.106 7f8d4fde2500 -1 librbd::api::Namespace: exists: error asserting namespace: (1) Operation not permitted rbd: map failed: (1) Operation not permitted rbd map --namespace namespace1 image01 -n client.newuser --keyring=/etc/ceph/client.newuser.keyring rbd: warning: image already mapped as /dev/rbd0 rbd: sysfs write failed rbd: error asserting namespace: (1) Operation not permitted In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try "dmesg | tail". 2021-12-03 12:16:24.011 7fcad776a040 -1 librbd::api::Namespace: exists: error asserting namespace: (1) Operation not permitted rbd: map failed: (1) Operation not permitted
rbd showmapped id pool namespace image snap device 0 rbd namespace1 image01 - /dev/rbd0 1 rbd namespace2 image02 - /dev/rbd1