Yes, I think an option (--force maybe) that says "I know I'm about to lose data, that's what I want" sounds like a reasonable compromise. And the given examples have clarified the current behavior in my mind. Thank you for the replies everyone. I'm better informed now. Sent from my Google Nexus 7 On Sep 21, 2012 2:11 AM, "Joe Julian" <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote: > Adding a --yes-i-know-what-im-doing type option is something I would get > behind (and have suggested, myself). File a bug report as an enhancement > request. > > "Dr. J?rg Petersen" <joerg.h.petersen at googlemail.com> wrote: > > >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.. > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120921/aaac643b/attachment.htm>
