Recreation of a purged volume with the same name has same content about infinit

[Dimrok]

I'm closing this issue.

infinit network create/update now (since 0.6.0) allows for setting an admin user (via --admin-rw). This admin user has permissions over every files, hence, can remove the whole content of a volume.

[chris-crone]

Hi @Fank! Thanks for your really detailed report.

When you run infinit volume delete, you just remove the descriptor for the volume. The --purge option is used to update or destroy objects that depend on the object that you're deleting. For example: if you purge a volume, you will remove drives that depend on it; if you purge a network, you will remove volumes and drives that depend on it; if you purge a silo then network that uses it is unlinked; etc.

The only way to remove the volume's data is to clear the silo or silos associated with it. Note that doing this will remove all data from all volumes which use the network associated with the silo.

$ infinit network delete fankserver/cluster --purge
$ infinit silo delete <your silo name> --clear-content

From here you can rebuild your infrastructure:

$ infinit silo create filesystem <your silo name>
$ infinit network create fankserver/cluster -S <your silo name>
$ infinit volume create fankserver/test -N fankserver/cluster

[Fank]

Thanks for the info,
but there should be a option to "purge" a volume with its content.
In my example i setup some silos initial and do not want to delete them because they contains multiple volumes.

[chris-crone]

Unfortunately we cannot provide an option to remove the contents of a volume because of how Infinit works. Our access control in the file system relies on encrypting blocks so that only the user who wrote them (or who have permissions to read/write) can read them. This means that it's not necessarily possible for a single user to traverse the entire file system tree and find all the blocks used for a volume.

The only workaround that I can think of for your case would be to make sure that you have a user who has read/write permissions on all files who can run rm -r * at the root of the volume.