[sheepdog-users] What can I do with my .stale objects ?

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:43:32 +0100 (CET),
Walid Moghrabi wrote:
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> Well, yes, I used snapshots and ProxMox use snapshots too when backuping VMs but these snapshots are released once process is finisehd so why would it remains uncleared data ? 

The garbage objects pointed by removed snapshots remain until all VDI
family members are removed. This problem is solved in v0.9.0. If you
are a heavy snapshot user, I strongly suggest using v0.9.0 or newer.

Thanks,
Hitoshi

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> If I understand well, your recommendations in order to clear up the whole cluster is to backup my VDIs then clear data en re-import ... that's what I was thinking ... just hopped there would have been a clever and faster way to clean things. 
> Well, I'll do that when I can. 
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> Thanks anyway. 
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> De: "Valerio Pachera" <sirio81 at gmail.com> 
> À: "Lista sheepdog user" <sheepdog-users at lists.wpkg.org> 
> Envoyé: Mercredi 14 Janvier 2015 10:57:12 
> Objet: Re: [sheepdog-users] What can I do with my .stale objects ? 
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> 2015-01-13 15:49 GMT+01:00 Walid Moghrabi <walid.moghrabi at lezard-visuel.com>: 
> > But, as you can see, node info is telling me that my cluster is nearly full 
> > (94%) where it should be around 30% used ... why ?? 
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> Were you using snapshots in the past? Or is proxmox using snapshot for 
> backups or something else? 
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> > so far, seems to be stable but now, what can I do ? 
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> You may try this: 
> - export a single vdi so you have a backup 
> - delete this vdi 
> - check if there are still objects in the cluster with its id [1] 
> - if there are not, then import the backup 
> - repeat the procedure for each vdi when you have time 
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> [1] 
> as an example, vdi vm-1040-disk-1 has the id 1c693b 
> dog vdi delete vdi vm-1040-disk-1 
> find /your/object/folder -name "*1c693b*" 
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