On Tue 19 Sep 2006, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> I can't speak for hanj, but it is reasonable to run all the expires
> at once.  However, hanj is not including the vault FOO in master.conf,
> only in master2.conf, so dirvish-expire will not automatically run
> vault FOO either.  That actually allows more freedom for hanj, because

Not quite true... dirvish-expire will search the entire bank(s) that is
specified in the master.conf for any images that are expired;
dirvish-expire doesn't care about vaults.  I've noticed that with vaults
for systems that have become obsolete: the vault definitions are removed
from master.conf, but (after some time) dirvish-expire complains about
"cannot expire vaultname:default:YYYYMMDD No unexpired good images"
which is pretty good actually :)

It's even wierder sometimes, depending on how you look at it:
we had renamed a system and had renamed the vault accordingly (and fixed
master.conf and the default.conf inside the vault). dirvish-expire gave
the above error message with the old host name; it gets its info from
the summary file, the location of the image within the bank is
irrelevant.


Of course, it could be that hanj has a separate bank defined in
master2.conf (I seem to have deleted his message already), in which case
he needs to manage it separately.


Paul Slootman
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