[Sheepdog] A question about vdi's disappearance.

[Yibin Shen]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Tao Lin <especiallyl at 126.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I'm now testing this interesting project and I went into a problem during the
> process.
>  I have 3 host machines, I used commands on machine A as following:
>  [root at novanode1 /home/sae]# sheep /home/sae/sheep-test
>  [root at novanode1 /home/sae]# sudo mount -o remount,user_xattr /
>  [root at novanode1 /home/sae]# collie cluster format --copies=3
>
>  On machine B:
>  root at node2:/home/sae#  sheep /home/sae/sheep-test
>  root at node2:/home/sae#  sudo mount -o remount,user_xattr /
>
>  Up to now,it seemed that sheepdog was working well. I then created two vdis
> using commands:
>  [root at novanode1 /home/sae]# collie vdi create alice 5M
>  [root at novanode1 /home/sae]# collie vdi create BOB 5M
>
>  Anyway, I was able to list all the vdis I had created.
>  [root at novanode1 /home/sae]# collie vdi list
>  name        id    size    used  shared    creation time   vdi id
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>  alice        1  5.0 MB  0.0 MB  0.0 MB 2011-11-22 04:45   a03907
>  BOB          1  5.0 MB  0.0 MB  0.0 MB 2011-11-22 04:45   a67b34
>
>  Then I tried to add machine C to the system, inputting commands as below:
>  root at node3:/home/sae# sheep /home/sae/sheep-test
>  root at node3:/home/sae# sudo mount -o remount,user_xattr /
>
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>  Well, sheep was still working well.
>  root at node3:/home/sae# collie vdi list
>  name        id    size    used  shared    creation time   vdi id
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>  alice        1  5.0 MB  0.0 MB  0.0 MB 2011-11-22 17:45   a03907
>  BOB          1  5.0 MB  0.0 MB  0.0 MB 2011-11-22 17:45   a67b34
>
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> After having uesd this command rashly:collie cluster format --copies=2, all the
> vdis were gone!
Yes, this is what 'format' command do
> root at node3:/home/sae# collie vdi list
>  name        id    size    used  shared    creation time   vdi id
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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>  Here is my question: if one makes mistake rashly as mine, can he restore the
> vdis and how?
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> Thanks a lot.
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