On 06/26/2014 01:58 PM, Sachin Pandit wrote: > Hi all, > > We had some concern regarding the snapshot delete "force" option, > That is the reason why we thought of getting advice from everyone out here. > > Currently when we give "gluster snapshot delete <snapname>", It gives a notification > saying that "mentioned snapshot will be deleted, Do you still want to continue (y/n)?". > As soon as he presses "y" it will delete the snapshot. > > Our new proposal is, When a user issues snapshot delete command "without force" > then the user should be given a notification saying to use "force" option to > delete the snap. In that case "gluster snapshot delete <snapname>" becomes useless apart from throwing a notification. If we can ensure snapshot delete all works only with "force" option then we can have gluster snapshot delete <volname> to work as it is now. ~Atin > When snapshot delete command is issued with "force" option then the user should > be given a notification saying "Mentioned snapshot will be deleted, Do you still > want to continue (y/n)". > > The reason we thought of bringing this up is because we have planned to introduce > a command "gluster snapshot delete all" which deletes all the snapshot in a system, > and "gluster snapshot delete volume <volname>" which deletes all the snapshots in > the mentioned volume. If user accidentally issues any one of the above mentioned > command and press "y" then he might lose few or more snapshot present in volume/system. > (Thinking it will ask for notification for each delete). > > Do you think notification would be more than enough, or do we need to introduce > a "force" option ? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Current procedure: > ------------------ > > [root@snapshot-24 glusterfs]# gluster snapshot delete snap1 > Deleting snap will erase all the information about the snap. > Do you still want to continue? (y/n) > > > Proposed procedure: > ------------------- > > [root@snapshot-24 glusterfs]# gluster snapshot delete snap1 > Please use the force option to delete the snap. > > [root@snapshot-24 glusterfs]# gluster snapshot delete snap1 force > Deleting snap will erase all the information about the snap. > Do you still want to continue? (y/n) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > We are looking forward for the feedback on this. > > Thanks, > Sachin Pandit. > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
