diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 4d5387c9017..b2200d9d442 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ SUBDIRS = . src qa man
 EXTRA_DIST += \
 	src/test/run-cli-tests \
 	src/test/cli \
-	src/test/downloads
+	src/test/downloads \
+	udev/50-rbd.rules
 check-local:
 #	Build gtest before we build our own tests. Doing this instead
 #	of SUBDIRS because with that, gtest's own tests would be run
diff --git a/debian/librbd1.install b/debian/librbd1.install
index b3cb648c636..567b3b19fb5 100644
--- a/debian/librbd1.install
+++ b/debian/librbd1.install
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 usr/lib/librbd.so.*
+usr/bin/crbdnamer
+lib/udev/rules.d/50-rbd.rules
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 6157b9cffa2..1a769f768de 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ install: build
 	dh_installdirs
 
 	$(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR) install
+	install -D -m 644 $(CURDIR)/udev/50-rbd.rules $(DESTDIR)/lib/udev/rules.d/50-rbd.rules
 
 # Add here commands to install the package into debian/testpack.
 # Build architecture-independent files here.
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index fe6a2b4b703..f67f56432dc 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ CLEANFILES =
 bin_PROGRAMS =
 sbin_PROGRAMS =
 sbin_SCRIPTS =
-bin_SCRIPTS = crun cclass $(srcdir)/cclsinfo cdebugpack
+bin_SCRIPTS = crun cclass $(srcdir)/cclsinfo cdebugpack crbdnamer
 # C/C++ tests to build will be appended to this
 check_PROGRAMS =
 # tests to actually run on "make check"; if you need extra, non-test,
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = $(srcdir)/verify-mds-journal.sh $(srcdir)/vstart.sh $(srcdir)/stop.
 	$(srcdir)/cclass.in $(srcdir)/cdebugpack.in \
 	$(srcdir)/cclsinfo $(srcdir)/make_version $(srcdir)/check_version \
 	$(srcdir)/.git_version \
+	$(srcdir)/crbdnamer \
 	$(ceph_tool_gui_DATA)
 
 # work around old versions of automake that don't define $docdir
diff --git a/src/crbdnamer b/src/crbdnamer
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3bd845e3b43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/crbdnamer
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo -n "cat /sys/devices/rbd/$1/pool"
+echo -n " "
+echo -n "cat /sys/devices/rbd/$1/name"
diff --git a/udev/50-rbd.rules b/udev/50-rbd.rules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..709e9c18b3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/udev/50-rbd.rules
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+KERNEL=="rbd[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/crbdnamer %n", SYMLINK+="rbd/%c{1}/%c{2}:%n"