Hello,

I have a single host in 4.4 with HCI and Gluster.

I have only one brick for the volume and I disabled sharding:

[root@ovirt01 /root]# gluster volume set data features.shard off
volume set: success
[root@ovirt01 /root]#

In events of web admin I see it registered and updating db:

Then I delete a VM with a 65Gb disk, that I created while sharding was enabled (I enabled the check box to remove disks) but it seems that files under .shard are not removed.

[root@ovirt01 ~]# du -sh /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/ovirt01st.lutwyn.storage\:_data/.shard/
62G /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/ovirt01st.lutwyn.storage:_data/.shard/
[root@ovirt01 ~]#

Is there any special command I have to run? Or can I simply remove the .shard directory now?

I only had that VM in that storage domain before disabling sharding.

The files are all of type:

-rw-rw----. 1 root root 67100672 Jun  3 18:18 23f0c94c-cf2a-42c1-8e2e-a21c4e542774.1
-rw-rw----. 1 root root 67108864 Jun  3 18:18 23f0c94c-cf2a-42c1-8e2e-a21c4e542774.2

...

-rw-rw----. 1 root root 67108864 Jun  3 18:44 23f0c94c-cf2a-42c1-8e2e-a21c4e542774.1008
-rw-rw----. 1 root root 39845888 Jun  3 18:44 23f0c94c-cf2a-42c1-8e2e-a21c4e542774.1009
-rw-rw----. 1 root root 56643584 Jun  3 18:44 23f0c94c-cf2a-42c1-8e2e-a21c4e542774.1031

Thanks in advance,

Gianluca