Re: some questions about rbd

[Dan Mick <dan.mick@inktank.com>]

I don't think we support that; I'm not sure how hard it would be. 
Somehow we'd have to keep knowledge of the open image handle around to
fail further I/O requests, it seems.  Josh?

On 10/22/2012 10:44 PM, jie sun wrote:
> Yes. I want to delete the image by force, even the vm is still using it.
>
> 2012/10/23 Dan Mick <dan.mick@inktank.com>:
>>
>>
>> On 10/22/2012 08:10 PM, jie sun wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I create a image and map it to a virtual machine,and then mkfs and mount
>>> it.
>>>
>>> I want to remove the image from mon server forcely, but it says
>>> "Removing image: 99% complete...failed.
>>>    delete error: image still has watchers
>>>    This means the image is still open or the client using it crashed.
>>> Try again after closing/unmapping it or waiting 30s for the crashed
>>> client to timeout."
>>>
>>> I want to know is there any other way to remove it by force?
>>
>>
>> Are you saying the vm still has the device open and is trying to use it?
>> But even so, you want the image to be deleted?
>>