What about NFS volumes added directly in build configs.
volumes:
-
name: jenkins-volume-1
nfs:
server: <server name>
path: /poc_runtime/jenkins/home
We just restarted all the servers hosting my openshift cluster and the all
data in the path above disappeared. Simply by restarting the host VM!
On 18 November 2016 at 16:19, Lionel Orellana <lione...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Mark
>
> On 18 November 2016 at 15:09, Mark Turansky <mtura...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Lionel Orellana <lione...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Couple of questions regarding Persistent Volumes, in particular NFS
>>> ones.
>>>
>>> 1) If I have a PV configured with the Retain policy it is not clear to
>>> me how this PV can be reused after the bound PVC is deleted. Deleting the
>>> PVC makes the PV status "Released". How do I make it "Available" again
>>> without losing the data?
>>>
>>
>> You can keep the PVC around longer if you intend to reuse it between
>> pods. There is no way for a PV to go from Released to Available again in
>> your scenario. You would have to delete and recreate the PV. It's a pointer
>> to real storage (the NFS share), so you're just recreating the pointer. The
>> data in the NFS volume itself is untouched.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2) Is there anything (e.g. all nodes crashing due to some underlying
>>> infrastructure failure) that would cause the data in a "Retain" volume to
>>> be wiped out? We had a problem with all our vmware servers (where I host
>>> my openshift POC) and all my NFS mounted volumes were wiped out. The
>>> storage guys assure me that nothing at their end caused that and it must
>>> have been a running process that did it.
>>>
>>
>> "Retain" is just a flag to the recycling process to leave that PV alone
>> when it's Released. The PV's retention policy wouldn't cause everything to
>> be deleted. NFS volumes on the node are no different than if you called
>> "mount" yourself. There is nothing inherent in OpenShift itself that is
>> running in that share that would wipe out data.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Lionel.
>>>
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