[Gluster-users] cannot create a new volume with a brick that used to be part of a deleted volume?

[Joe Julian]

Adding a --yes-i-know-what-im-doing type option is something I would get behind (and have suggested, myself). File a bug report as an enhancement request. 

"Dr. Jörg Petersen" <joerg.h.petersen at googlemail.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>    what I regularly do:
>1) Create a snapshot (btrfs) of Brick
>2) reassemble the snapshots into an new (Snapshot-) Gluster-Volume
>
>When Reassembling the snapshots I have to remove all xattr's and 
>.gluster-Directory.
>Since btrfs is painfully slow in deleting, I would prefer an option to 
>reuse the Content, wich should be valid for the new (Snapshot-) 
>Gluster-Volume...
>
>Greetings,
>Jörg
>
>
>Am 20.09.2012 20:56, schrieb Doug Hunley:
>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote:
>>> Because it's a vastly higher priority to preserve data. Just because I
>>> delete a volume doesn't mean I want the data deleted. In fact, more often
>>> than not, it's quite the opposite. The barrier to data loss is high, and it
>>> should remain high.
>> OK, again I'll ask: what is a typical scenario for me as a gluster
>> admin to delete a volume and want to add one (or more) of its former
>> bricks to another volume and keep that data in tact? I can't think of
>> a real world example. But I assume they exist as this is the model
>> taken by gluster..
>>
>