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

Martin Weiss Martin.Weiss at suse.com
Fri Jun 30 01:31:28 MDT 2017



>>  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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