[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Feature Request: Lock Volume Settings

David Gossage dgossage at carouselchecks.com
Mon Nov 14 00:42:23 UTC 2016


On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Lindsay Mathieson <
lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> As discussed recently, it is way to easy to make destructive changes
> to a volume,e.g change shard size. This can corrupt the data with no
> warnings and its all to easy to make a typo or access the wrong volume
> when doing 3am maintenance ...
>
> So I'd like to suggest something like the following:
>
>   gluster volume lock <volname>
>
> Setting this would fail all:
> - setting changes
> - add bricks
> - remove bricks
> - delete volume
>
>   gluster volume unlock <volname>
>
> would allow all changes to be made.
>
> Just a thought, open to alternate suggestions.
>
> Thanks
>
> +
sounds handy

> --
> Lindsay
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