illumos gate

We will need the 'force' flag then so zpool/zfs commands would still be usable for scripting.

Well on second thought do we really need this as a feature.
Reason being there are a lot of scripts that that currently are written to work with only "zpool destroy"/ "zfs destroy" [ without user interaction ].
There is a "very good" possibility that these might break a lot of tasks elsewhere.

THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.

Zpool force avoids a bunch of checks. It should not be used just because you want to use scripting. Don't break the interface here.
This bug gets a heartfelt -1 in my opinion.

Commands should not need to prompt for verification. If you have permission to run these commands (e.g. as root), then you better know what you're doing.

I guess I'll better throw in the towel here. You're right, it'll break scripting.

roy

Garrett D'Amore wrote:

THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.

Zpool force avoids a bunch of checks. It should not be used just because you want to use scripting. Don't break the interface here.

I haven't said anything about existing 'force' behavior, what I meant is that we'll need an option to bypass interactive prompt if the feature was to be implemented.

we should go ahead and close this issue then..

Thanks