[sheepdog] [PATCH] new option -i to initialize storage directory

[Liu Yuan]

On 07/20/2012 06:29 PM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>> This looks strange to me. It acts like we need mkfs the directory
>> before run the sheep, where as we actually make nothing to it, just
>> create a file lock. This extra step might solve some problems
>> (which could be solved by other means), but it will cause great
>> inconvenience to all users: we have to run sheep with sheep -i for
>> the first time, and for following restarting, we don't need it.
> 
> BTW, to prevent the problem, you (or chris) suggested to use mklabel
> to label the whole file system. For me that is much more
> 'inconvenient' (and is also an extra step).
> 

Well this is the problem of the sheepdog itself. This is the problem caused by users usage of
other resource. So I think this should be handled outside the sheep.

Thanks,
Yuan