From ebaf154fc4d7f91ff704ca2367556c137ed52137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Romain LE DISEZ <romain.le-disez@corp.ovh.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:51:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note to the part power increase documentation
Specify that the relink command must be run as the same user than the
daemon processes to avoid creating files that are not manipulable by the
server/replicator/...
Change-Id: If23592855db5f5bb0ec1e7c679de15769fd86871
---
doc/source/ring_partpower.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/source/ring_partpower.rst b/doc/source/ring_partpower.rst
index 17e689aacf..47d09beff5 100644
--- a/doc/source/ring_partpower.rst
+++ b/doc/source/ring_partpower.rst
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ on all object servers in this phase::
services (replicators, reconstructors and reconcilers)- they have to skip
partitions during relinking.
+.. note::
+
+ The relinking command must run as the same user as the daemon processes
+ (usually swift). It will create files and directories that must be
+ manipulable by the daemon processes (server, auditor, replicator, ...).
+
Relinking might take some time; while there is no data copied or actually
moved, the tool still needs to walk the whole file system and create new hard
links as required.