On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Christian Brunner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:18:11PM +0000, Sage Weil wrote: > > Is there any particular reason to restrict the 'device name' to 12 chars? > > On the ceph blog I have read that the name of an object is a fixed-size > 20 byte identifier. That's why I've chosen to use a base64 encoded sequence > number. This sequence number requires 8 bytes to store, so there are 12 bytes > left for the 'device name'. If this is no longer a restriction, using longer > names (with a hex encoding of the sequence number) would make sense.
Oh, yeah, that restriction was removed a while ago now. The object name is now an arbitrary string, so you can use whatever is most convenient. Let us know how it goes! sage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
