[Deepsea-users] Antw: Re: Add management of disks/devices that already have partitions

[Eric Jackson]

The issue is https://github.com/SUSE/DeepSea/issues/259, but we have not had 
the time to write anything for this.


On Friday, June 30, 2017 01:31:28 AM Martin Weiss wrote:
> >>  as far as I have understood deepsea - it ignores all disks / devices
> >> 
> >> that already have partitions.
> >> 
> >> This causes an additional effort to clean these disks manually before
> >> they can show up in profiles.
> >> 
> >> Would it be possible to enhance deepsea „not“ to ignore these disks?
> >> 
> >> IMO it would be great to discover them and add them to the proposals -
> >> maybe in a separate section of the files like „already partitioned“.
> >> 
> >> Then in a further step these disks could be specified / moved in the
> >> profiles by an administrator what then would allow to clear / use them
> >> with deepsea during deployment stage in case they are specified to be an
> >> OSD filesystem/journal/wal/db... (deepsea could clean the disks before
> >> putting OSD data on them).
> >> 
> >> IMP such a feature would allow a more complete disk management with
> >> deepsea...
> >> 
> >> Thoughts?
> > 
> > Fine until somebody uses this feature to wipe their data for which they
> > have no backup. Automating disk-zapping/filesystem-wiping is a tricky
> > business.
> 
> Is it a higher risk in case we provide a framework around this within
> deepsea or in case the customer uses manual steps?
> 
> IMO - In case we would have this support in deepsea we could add checks and
> verifications and make it easier and safer for the admin and ensure he is
> not deleting the OS or existing OSD data..
> 
> Martin
> 
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