From: Dan Mick <dan.mick@inktank.com>
To: Mark Nelson <mark.nelson@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>,
ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, james.page@ubuntu.com, gcs@debian.hu
Subject: Re: deb/rpm package purge
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:46:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5148CEC2.2050405@inktank.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5148C4EE.5090205@inktank.com>
Is there a way out if you remove the keyrings?
On 03/19/2013 01:05 PM, Mark Nelson wrote:
>
>
> On 03/19/2013 02:48 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
>> Should the package purge remove /var/lib/ceph/* (potential mon data, osd
>> data) and/or /var/log/ceph/* (logs)? Right now it does, but mysql, for
>> example, leaves /var/lib/mysql where it is (not sure about logs).
>
> I'm definitely for leaving mon/osd data in place. Those files are
> created at cluster creation time, not when the packages are installed.
> They may have been created by a totally different installation of Ceph
> than the packaged version.
>
> What's worse is that you can't get the files back simply by reinstalling
> the package. With the way things currently are, a package purge will
> effectively permanently destroy your cluster. Purge should get rid of
> configuration files, but I don't think it should destroy user data which
> is what it effectively is doing now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-19 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-19 19:48 deb/rpm package purge Sage Weil
2013-03-19 19:59 ` Greg Farnum
2013-03-19 20:05 ` Mark Nelson
2013-03-19 20:46 ` Dan Mick [this message]
2013-03-19 20:51 ` Sage Weil
2013-03-19 22:27 ` Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
2013-03-19 22:29 ` Sage Weil
2013-03-19 22:51 ` Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
2013-03-19 22:59 ` Sage Weil
2013-03-20 6:29 ` Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
2013-03-20 12:48 ` Sage Weil
2013-03-20 14:48 ` Mark Nelson
2013-03-20 17:27 ` James Page
2013-03-20 23:23 ` Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
2013-03-21 1:08 ` Dan Mick
2013-03-19 23:01 ` Mark Nelson
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