From ebaf154fc4d7f91ff704ca2367556c137ed52137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Romain LE DISEZ 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.