From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josh Durgin Subject: Re: possible to recover a deleted RBD? Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:59:54 -0700 Message-ID: <504E54CA.4010200@inktank.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:62816 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751597Ab2IJU75 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:59:57 -0400 Received: by pbbrr13 with SMTP id rr13so3036593pbb.19 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:59:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Travis Rhoden Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org On 09/10/2012 01:55 PM, Travis Rhoden wrote: > I sheepishly must ask -- is there any way to recover a deleted RBD? > > The RBD was created using the Linux 3.2 kernel client, running 0.48.1. > Removed with "rbd rm -p rbd ". > > I expect the answer to be no, but wanted to check for sure! > > Thanks, > > Travis Short answer: no Long answer: it may be possible if your cluster was undergoing recovery and extra copies of objects are around, but this is unreliable since you don't know which objects should be there due to thin-provisioning. Josh