You should disable sharding prior using the volume as a storage domain. Disabling sharding while you have data on the volume will fause havoc. Can you try disabling before creating the storage domain ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 3 юни 2020 г. 20:35:13 GMT+03:00, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com&gt; написа: >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: > >Detected change in value of option features.shard from on to off on >volume >data of cluster Default, and updated it to engine DB. >6/3/206:46:52 PM > >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