command is deprecated in favor of udev. Systems with udev do not need
to use the aoe-mkdevs or aoe-mkself commands, because udev
will create device nodes as needed.
Systems without udev use aoe-mkdevs to create the character
special files necessary to
control the aoe driver. The aoe-mkdevs command uses
to also create block special files.
The aoe drivers after version 49 support dynamic minor device numbers
so that a greater number of devices can be supported. The
aoe-mkdevs command is incompatible with dynamic device numbers.
If your system lacks udev, and you are using an aoe driver version 50
or above, use the aoe_dyndevs=0 module option to force the aoe driver
to use static device numbers.
If you are not using dynamic device numbers, and you built your aoe
driver to support only one partition per device
partitions), then the device files must match, and you should use the
environment variable described below.
This should be the name of the directory where the special device files
will be created.
variable is set in the environment, it will override the default
number of partitions per aoe disk, namely 16.
In this example, the root user on a host named
creates special files for using the aoe disks in shelf 7. After
remembering that the driver doesn't have partition support, this
sysadmin gets rid of the mismatching device nodes and calls
aoe-mkdevs again with n_partitions set to 1.