Hello, what I regularly do: 1) Create a snapshot (btrfs) of Brick 2) reassemble the snapshots into an new (Snapshot-) Gluster-Volume When Reassembling the snapshots I have to remove all xattr's and .gluster-Directory. Since btrfs is painfully slow in deleting, I would prefer an option to reuse the Content, wich should be valid for the new (Snapshot-) Gluster-Volume... Greetings, J?rg Am 20.09.2012 20:56, schrieb Doug Hunley: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote: >> Because it's a vastly higher priority to preserve data. Just because I >> delete a volume doesn't mean I want the data deleted. In fact, more often >> than not, it's quite the opposite. The barrier to data loss is high, and it >> should remain high. > OK, again I'll ask: what is a typical scenario for me as a gluster > admin to delete a volume and want to add one (or more) of its former > bricks to another volume and keep that data in tact? I can't think of > a real world example. But I assume they exist as this is the model > taken by gluster.. >