normally people mount sheepdog data disks in fstab. That way the disks get mounted at boot. For example, we have the following mounts:
/dev/sda ==> / /dev/sdb ==> /var/lib/sheepdog The problem occurs when mounting the sheepdog data disk fails at boot time (for example: damaged disk, admin triggered reboot). In that case /var/lib/sheepdog is empty (and on /dev/sda). The boot process continues, and 'sheep' simply creates a new 'farm' in /var/lib/sheepdog. Even worse, It immediately start auto-recovery, which fills the root disk in short time. Any idea how to prevent that. Maybe we should not create/initialize the storage automatically at startup, man used a 'mksheepdogfs' to initialize the dir. That way the 'sheep' can check if the directory is initialized/mounted? - Dietmar -- sheepdog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sheepdog
