Re: 'Immutable bit' on pools to prevent deletion

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Sage Weil <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The trouble with this is admin socket part is that any tool that
>> manages Ceph must use the admin socket interface as well as the normal
>> over-the-network command interface, and by extension must be able to
>> execute locally on a mon.  We would no longer have a comprehensive
>> remote management interface for the mon: management tools would have
>> to run some code locally too.
>
> True.. if we make that option enabled by default.  If we it's off by
> default them it's an opt-in layer of protection.  Most clusters don't have
> ephemeral pools so I think lots of people would want this.

+1, the problem goes away if it's opt-in, should be easy enough for
API consumers to inspect the conf setting and give a nice informative
error if the safety catch is engaged.  I can imagine wanting to engage
this ahead of plugging in a GUI or some config management recipes that
you didn't quite trust yet.

John
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