[sheepdog] [PATCH] sheep, collie: make cluster shutdown a force operation

MORITA Kazutaka morita.kazutaka at gmail.com
Wed May 8 16:42:43 CEST 2013


At Wed, 08 May 2013 22:18:39 +0900,
Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> 
> At Wed, 08 May 2013 12:57:25 +0800,
> Liu Yuan wrote:
> > 
> > On 05/08/2013 11:46 AM, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > > -f is just for safety. I think changing the meaning of shutdown would
> > >  be a little bit dangerous for users.
> > 
> > Why it is dangerous, any example? People use 'shutdown' the cluster, I
> > think it is quite safe regardless status of the cluster. Well, what we
> > really need is a confirm before executing the 'shutdown' requests like
> > 'format'.
> 
> The confirm will break existing scripts for managing sheepdog
> clusters. I cannot agree with the way.

IMO, there is no need to confirm before shutdown.  The operation doesn't hurt
the existing data at all.  With the same reason, it looks okay to make
SD_OP_SHUTDOWN a force operation always.

Thanks,

Kazutaka



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