[DRBD-user] backing_dev length value limited to 128 bytes

Alexander Winkler aw at artfiles.de
Wed Feb 24 14:28:38 CET 2010

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Hello,

I am curious if it would be possible (perhaps in a future version) to
increase the max length for the backing_dev name to more than 128 bytes
(maybe 255 bytes?)? In my current setup there are iscsi-targets whose
names are generated by udev in the following manner, therefore
exceeding the length-limitation:

/dev/disk/by-path/ip-x.x.x.x:3260-iscsi-iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-9f4e88005-913000000484b842-xxx-sda-lun-0

If this is not possible, any thoughts on how to circumvent this
problem?

Thanks in advance,
Alexander



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