In the Debian world, purge does both a removal of the package and a clean
up the files so might be good to keep semantic consistency here?


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Sage Weil <s...@newdream.net> wrote:

> Purgedata is only meant to be run *after* the package is uninstalled.  We
> should make it do a check to enforce that.  Otherwise we run into these
> problems...
>
>
> Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkw...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/11/13 06:37, Alfredo Deza wrote:
>>
>>>  On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Gruher, Joseph R
>>>  <joseph.r.gru...@intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Could these problems be caused by running a purgedata but not a purge?
>>>>
>>>
>>>  It could be, I am not clear on what the expectation was for just doing
>>>  purgedata without a purge.
>>>
>>>  Purgedata removes /etc/ceph but without the purge ceph is still installed,
>>>>  then ceph-deploy install detects ceph as already installed and does not
>>>>  (re)create /etc/ceph?
>>>>
>>>
>>>  ceph-deploy will not create directories for you, that is
>>> left to the
>>>  ceph install process, and just to be clear, the
>>>  latest ceph-deploy version (1.3) does not remote /etc/ceph, just the 
>>> contents.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, however purgedata is removing /var/lib/ceph, which means after
>> running purgedata you need to either run purge then install or manually
>> recreate the various working directories under /var/lib/ceph before
>> attempting any mon. mds or osd creation.
>>
>> Maybe purgedata should actually leave those top level dirs under
>> /var/lib/ceph?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Mark
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