I’ve ran into this several times with CEPH, this time I was deleting some unused docker containers.
Log messages look like this:
unmap container_docker-2: rbd: sysfs write failed\nrbd: unmap failed: (16) Device or resource busy"
t=2019-10-09T21:45:36-0500 lvl=eror msg=“Failed to delete RBD storage volume for container "docker-2" on storage pool "remote"”
t=2019-10-09T21:45:36-0500 lvl=eror msg=“Failed deleting container storage” err=“Failed to delete RBD storage volume for container "docker-2" on storage pool "remote"” name=docker-2
I found an easy fix between these forums and ceph-users though.
Here’s the process, first find the /dev path:
cat /proc/*/mountinfo | grep docker-2
1757 346 252:80 / /var/snap/lxd/common/shmounts/storage-pools/remote/containers/docker-2 rw,relatime shared:653 - ext4 /dev/rbd5 rw,discard,stripe=1024,data=ordered
sudo rbd unmap -o force /dev/rbd5
lxc delete docker-2