On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:06 AM Alfredo Deza <adeza@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There are a couple of reasons why 'deactivate' hasn't made it into > ceph-volume. One of them is that, it wasn't clear (to me) if > deactivation meant full removal/purging of the OSD or if > it meant to leave it in a state where it wouldn't start (e.g. > disabling the systemd units). > > My guess is that there is a need for both and for a few more use > cases, like disabling the systemd unit so that the same OSD can be > provisioned. So far we've concentrated in the creation of OSDs > surpassing ceph-disk > features, but I think that we can start exploring the complexity of > deactivation now. Would it be fair to say that the blocker right now is an enumeration of the use cases and a proposed update to the CLI command set to handle those cases?
