When deploying bluestore using ceph-ansible-3.1.0-0.1.rc9.el7cp.noarch with ceph container d45f6eba4202 [1] ceph-disk hits the following race condition:

command_check_call: Running command: /usr/sbin/mkfs -t xfs -f -i
size=2048 -- /dev/vdb1
/dev/vdb1: No such file or directory
Usage: mkfs.xfs
/* blocksize */         [-b log=n|size=num]
/* metadata */          [-m crc=0|1,finobt=0|1,uuid=xxx]
/* data subvol */       [-d agcount=n,agsize=n,file,name=xxx,size=num,
                            (sunit=value,swidth=value|su=num,sw=num|noalign),
                            sectlog=n|sectsize=num
/* force overwrite */   [-f]
/* inode size */        [-i log=n|perblock=n|size=num,maxpct=n,attr=0|1|2,
                            projid32bit=0|1]
/* no discard */        [-K]
/* log subvol */        [-l agnum=n,internal,size=num,logdev=xxx,version=n
                            sunit=value|su=num,sectlog=n|sectsize=num,
                            lazy-count=0|1]
/* label */             [-L label (maximum 12 characters)]
/* naming */            [-n log=n|size=num,version=2|ci,ftype=0|1]
/* no-op info only */   [-N]
/* prototype file */    [-p fname]
/* quiet */             [-q]
/* realtime subvol */   [-r extsize=num,size=num,rtdev=xxx]
/* sectorsize */        [-s log=n|size=num]
/* version */           [-V]
                        devicename
<devicename> is required unless -d name=xxx is given.
<num> is xxx (bytes), xxxs (sectors), xxxb (fs blocks), xxxk (xxx KiB),
      xxxm (xxx MiB), xxxg (xxx GiB), xxxt (xxx TiB) or xxxp (xxx PiB).
<value> is xxx (512 byte blocks).
'/usr/sbin/mkfs -t xfs -f -i size=2048 -- /dev/vdb1' failed with status code 1


[1] https://access.redhat.com/containers/#/registry.access.redhat.com/rhceph/rhceph-3-rhel7/images/3-9