[Gluster-devel] Default behavior of remove brick op

[Justin Clift]

On 18/03/2014, at 10:50 AM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
> On 03/18/2014 04:10 PM, Kaushal M wrote:
>> IMO, its best if we just remove the default action instead of changing
>> its meaning. It is best if force the user to provide an operation for
>> the remove-brick command. This way, users using scripts will know that
>> something has changed when the script breaks. It is a simple fix if
>> the users want to original behavior back, just add commit force as the
>> operation.
>> 
>> If we change the default to start, scripts would not break and users
>> wouldn't be notified. They'll continue running the script believing
>> that the bricks have been forcefully removed, where as it wouldn't be
>> the case. This could lead to further problems.
>> 
>> Regarding the deprecation, I suggest we add the deprecation message to
>> 3.5 before it ships. We will not be breaking any of the assumed
>> functionality for this release, and can safely do the actual change in
>> 3.6.
> +1
> 
>> tl;dr, Require an explicit operation for the remove-brick command and
>> add the deprecation message to 3.5.

Atin has posted a patch for review here, if you guys (and anyone else)
has the time:

  http://review.gluster.org/#/c/7292/

If we can get this done soon + cherry picked into release-3.5 branch,
we can make it for 3.5.0.

:)

+ Justin

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